The giant leech plopped onto the mud in its death throes, slowly being swallowed up by the swamp.<br/><br/>Finally Siri had a chance to inspect the deer unmolested. It had a total of six straight slashing wounds down its side, in two parallel groups of three. A hole had been ripped in the abdominal wall between them, exposing the internal organs, some of which had been mostly eaten like the liver. On its neck, it had a double row of teeth marks, puncturing deep into the flesh to sever arteries and veins, going all the way around. Finally and most disturbing of all, the female deer had been, to put it bluntly, raped until its sexual organs were bruised and bleeding.