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<\/a><\/p>\nPerhaps ten minutes passed before she noticed that one side of the pit looked different \u2014 the soil there was darker, denser, as if it had been packed down.<\/p>\n
The woman crawled closer and suddenly saw something white in the earth. At first, she thought it was a stone. She brushed her finger across it and jerked her hand back: it was a bone. A human bone.<\/p>\n
Her heart started pounding. With trembling hands, she began scraping away the soil \u2014 and from beneath the damp layer, a face appeared. A man\u2019s face, deathly pale, with sunken eye sockets.<\/p>\n
The hair had almost decayed, but the collar of a shirt and a rusty button were still visible \u2014 familiar somehow.<\/p>\n
The woman screamed and stumbled backward. It was the face of her neighbor \u2014 the man who had gone missing a year ago. The whole village had searched for him, but never found him. Back then, people said he had left for the city, abandoning his wife.<\/p>\n