I have learned more about my new surroundings.
There is a very strict law that, on the rare occasions when bodies land within the walls, they must be left untouched. They will go through the natural process of decomposition - and then they will exist as permanent broken skeletons, undisturbed for decades and centuries before finally turning to dust.
In fact in one case - bit of sky-corpse trivia for you here - a body landed on someone. She was not instantly killed but was severely injured and could not be helped as she died a slow painful death because it would have disturbed the sky-corpse. So there are two tangled skeletons in that case.
In another case, the corpse is partly on the ground and partly in a tree.
The spot where today's sky-corpse landed is directly in front of a public school entrance. So, for some considerable length of time, the kids will be forced to make their away around a stinking pile of decomposing flesh in order to attend their lessons. Eventually of course, through the fullness of time, it will just be a matter of walking around clean, odorless bones.
"So lemme ask you something," I said to a guy. "I know that leaving the sky-corpses undisturbed is the law, but is it also beloved? Do people embrace the custom or resent it?"
He looked at me with hatred. There were several kids milling about and he rounded them up and told them not to look at me.
"Is this about Killed by a Human?" I said. "I'm not from around here but it seems like too much of a coincidence not to be. Killed by a Human?"
He shielded as many childrens' eyes from me as he could.
