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Until he saw the arh the side wall, brilliant and opalescent as the light fell upon it

"So, it’s highly probable that the killer stole soan said "Do you kno ?"

Madison shook her head "No When it gets loe just reorder it It’s a staple in many special-effects studios There could’ve been dozens of small snatches of it in the remnant bin"

"Where’s that?"

"Over there, beside the shelves" She pointed to what looked like ainst the wall, surrounded by some of the rat creatures There weren’t any books on the shelves, just endless bolts of fabric--bolts of lossy knits in brilliant colors, the better to create the world of The Unholy Right now, there was a lot of "blackout" ainst the wall has remnants in it We usually have remnants of this stuff because the fabric is delicate and I probably do at least ten ," Madison explained

"I assuan said, "that anyone could have helped themselves to a few remnants and not been noticed, correct?"

"Who’d really notice anything around here?" Jane asked, and laughed "I’ve worked with dozens of human skulls, sketched hundreds of crime scenes," she said "But this…this is creepy"

"I ith dead bodies and I have to agree," Kat said

"Wait until you see all the mannequins in the hall," Madison warned her

"I can only i at their fabricated victie and Myra Sue

"Things aren’t half as creepy as real people," Tyler stated, and they all nodded "They’re good, but res"

"Yeah, but it’s about the e "I wouldn’t want to be locked up alone in this place"

"It is a little creepy when there aren’t many people here, and you’re not sure where your coworkers are," Madison told her, s Then her smile faded "But it never bothered ive us about half a yard of that fabric?" Logan asked

"Of course" She went to the bin and pulled out a piece

As she did, a phone rang, and she heard Logan pick up

"Right away," he said

Madison stared at him, as did the others

"What?" she mouthed

"We’re needed in the basement Sean and Eddie will meet us at the elevator on this level"

"He needs all of us? What did he find?" Madison asked

"A bone," Logan said "A human bone"

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Despite the heavy-duty lantern, it was difficult to see much in the basement

But the bone, Sean was certain, was real--and huo back to the first floor and bring the others down to the basenize immediately what they had

The basic structure of the basement was sound, but there were areas where the concrete that constructed the below-ground walls orn through The hard-packed earth beyond ht have created pressure on the sides He’d found the bone stuck in the wall, and what it meant, Sean had no idea

"It is real, and it is human A hu the bone "Are there…more?"

"No, just that one bone It came out of the wall," Sean told her

"Oh, God Oh, God, what else?" Eddiethe graveyard here" She looked at Sean "Is it possible that this ar dead--and with tih? I don’t know that much about funerary processes and certainly not in the 1800s, but weren’t pine boxes allowed back then? We’ve only recently--in human history, that is--learned that disease can be spread, so we started using sealed coffins"