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I screamed and launched myself out of the hole and straight into the surprised arms of Chris as he climbed up to me. We both toppled to the ground in front of the hollow and I landed on top of him. A hard ‘oof’ escaped his lips on the landing, but I didn’t give him a chance to take the breather before I grabbed him by the front of his shirt and gave the poor man a hearty shake.
“Bodies! Bones! Ex-humans!”
He arched an eyebrow. “Ex-humans?”
The question came not from my poor captive companion but from the hole. I froze and both of us whipped our heads in that direction. We now had a good angle of the cave and could see the whole of the fifty-foot circular space. The cave had a carpet of animal bones, and the walls were decorated with skins of all kinds of animals from goats to
