then , gradually , the giant would begin turning yellow at the tips of its arms and slightly gray in the trunk where it touched the ground until , within a year , it is mostly yellow while inside it was a putrid pickle , rotting , attacked by fungus and mold , an secret charnel house , eagerly explored by burrowing insects , fungi , geckos , and mold , undergoing years of decomposition , exposed to the elements like the naked body of a warrior by a vengeful enemy , and made food for the birds in the old blind ( blind ! )