Nine. And then there were eight.
Eight koi, swimming in the pond.
The light beige koi lied at the bottom of the pond,
motionless.
Its stomach bloated. And smelled, when fished out of the pond.
The mystery of its death we haven't solved.
The water? The food?
We hope not, as we monitored the other koi.
Hailed from a Pasir Ris farm it did.
From Thailand, they said.
A pair we bought then. Silvery beige, with some patterns in orange.
So pathetic it looked, lying motionless at the bottom of the pond,
its silvery sheen shining through the algaed water.
Now down to eight. A new dynamics in the eco-system.
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