As soon as I saw the prompt I knew I wanted the 'dig' to refer to digging a grave. But that's a very me thing to write. I wanted the body being buried to be the centerpiece of the story but wanted it to be extraordinary in some way. So it needed to be set somewhere where burials would be considered odd. At first I thought of aliens. But as soon as I thought of setting it in the future everything clicked into place.
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