In the gully, the aliens began collecting the wreckage and searching for the beacon. Two of their number sifted dirt near the burning remains of the starship while the rest gathered the scattered bits of the advance ship and placed the remains on floating sleds.

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  They looked at the bodies of the constructs destroyed during the conflict but displayed no curiosity; rather, the constructs were simply additional debris to add to the load of the sleds.

  What pieces of flesh they found they studied closely then added to a separate load.