The platform was triangular and about three meters on a side with no walls. It was high enough in the trees that Maria could see the tiny pinpoints of stars in the sky above. Feathers and twigs lined the edges of the triangle, and the trees supporting it were decorated with dried skins of small mammals—raccoons, mice, rats. The skeletons of crows and snakes and lizards hung in the branches and off the edge of the bier.