Frozen in silence, I squinted into the eerie, pale light hands popped up

from beneath the ground. They shook off dirt and stretched. A dozen hands poked

up, shimmering yellow and green in the moonlight. And then heads. Human heads.

Hair caked with dirt. Skin loose, hanging from their skulls. The stared at me

with pleading eyes, faces twisted, mouths hanging open in pain. "Take me

with you," one of them called in a dry whisper.

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