With the slightly better weather forecast I took my camera out with me.
Irrespective of the means of capture, and the weather, the outlook was bleak.
This is an unusual view- there is green undamaged vegetation in the picture. I can still smell the soot that permeated the entire area.
We never did finally decide what species this had been, before it was burnt to death.
For me this had to be the most horrific find.
A female adder.
Is she not screaming out in agony as she felt her body burn to a crisp?
Those powerful jaws, and venomous fangs just hanging, now unable to move without crumbling to dust.
Even her eye still has that lustre, that glistened in rage as she could feel her death engross her body as a whole.
Today's reptile death count, for me.
I do not believe I could even wish this end for the perpetrators of the crime.
I do not know what morally should happen, if the guilty party were ever to be found.
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