As the floodwaters receded we found so much more than the missing ones - we also found what killed them.
Most of the bones tangled up in the mud and general debris leftover from the flood were human. Most were enough for us to identify them and return as much as we could to their families for burial. Most of them were human... but plenty were not.
At first we thought we'd found a new species of fish or river dolphin or mid-sized whale and then our guesses ran out when we found the first skull whose jagged jaw was still locked around a partially crushed human skull. In that moment we had more answers to more questions than we'd ever anticipated from a basic post flood clean-up.
The one that burned brightest, the one we never wanted to answer was what if there are more down there.
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