Winter fades and spring comes, with the early spring mornings still quite cold. As the winter snow melts, the bone-chilling river water bubbles flirtatiously on the river stones where women wash clothes, surprisingly mixed with fresh blood.
Before long, a body bobbed up from the river water. Haphazard, greasy hair, like a black cap, concealed the face. The body bloated and decaying suggested it had been dead for quite some time.
Quickly after, the third, followed by the fourth bodies emerged. Some bodies were reduced to skeleton, the flesh seemingly gnawed away by fish...
Looking ahead, it turned out that a thick layer of ice had melted and shattered. These bodies would have sunk to the bottom of the river before, now floating on the surface as the ice melted.
Extending one's gaze, on the distant plains as well, corpses lay everywhere, a truly horrifying scene to behold.
