Bewitched
Then, louder, broken: “It’s not a treasure!”
I pushed past him. My gaze fell to the contents. And I gasped.
“Bones?!”
Laid carefully within the chest, draped in black fabric, were bones. Pale and dry, some thick, some narrow, none of them whole. The sight chilled me. My skin prickled as though I had stumbled into a tomb.
“Oh my god,” I breathed. “Whose bones are these?”
“I don’t know,” Flynn muttered, staring. His voice was flat, dazed. “But they must be worth something. They hid them for a reason. Don’t you think they’re valuable? Maybe they cost—”
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