diff --git a/codex/erasure/erasure.nim b/codex/erasure/erasure.nim
index 87b4bd20..20d744f2 100644
--- a/codex/erasure/erasure.nim
+++ b/codex/erasure/erasure.nim
@@ -510,6 +510,9 @@ proc asyncDecode*(
   if not task.success.load():
     return failure("Leopard decoding task failed")
 
+  defer: 
+    task.recovered = default(Isolated[seq[seq[byte]]])
+
   var recovered = task.recovered.extract
 
   success(recovered)