Day 846

The stench of decay had been lingering around the fields for several days with no signs of leaving, if anything it was getting worse. It wasn't until a missing persons case placed their person within range of the fields that the authorities were given reason to take the smell seriously.

It took police dogs all of five hours to find the body, or rather a shrivelled sack of human with an exceptionally caved in stomach. It wasn't their missing person, it was someone else who would have to be taken to the morgue to be properly identified and processed to find their cause of death.

As the forensics team tried to separate the body from the ground  (the recent heatwave having damn near fused it to the cracked dirt) the stomach collapsed entirely, sending up a cloud of dust, flies and the stench of fresh pus. It sent the team back retching and gagging, hoping that when they turned back it wouldn't look as bad as it smelled.

After composing themselves once more they saw that the body had died over some kind of tunnel - quite a large one at that. It would have been all to easy to dismiss is for a badger's tunnel or a fox den but for the fact that when they took a closer look they saw a string of lights descending down and curving gradually to the left, seeming to spiral down out of view.