Day 2,580

It was the maggots that led us to her, face down and barely visible among them. We believed she'd been dying for months, gradually rotting away from the inside til all that was left of her was a thin layer of flesh and the swarm of maggots that spilled out with every bump, scrape or nick against her delicate skin. 

Whether she was in denial or whether she was just  electrical impulses piloting a meatsuit, we'd never know for sure. All we could say was that she either couldn't or didn't want to seek medical assistance and eventually made her way into an old water trough in the woods some thirty miles out of town.

Funny thing though, a dozen eye witnesses had seen her stumbling about bleeding maggots that very morning.

I don't doubt she'll be seen around the area for years to come.

Cases like this - people like this - don't die easy.