"The cold could easily have preserved him," you say. "He could have been here a day or half a year. In any case, there's no need to concern ourselves over one dead man."
On impulse, you stoop down and remove the brooch from the man's cloak before gesturing to the body. "Frozen or not, we don't want a dead body near the camp. Ride out a ways and dump it in the snow."
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