Something in the lakes had changed, something leaked into them when the mines were shut down and turned the water to poison. It was probably the same chemical that drove the miners mad, making them delusional enough to dig themselves to death, suffocating down their seemingly endless little tunnels like blind hares.
Whatever got to them was now sitting in the lake that used to be clogged with corpses but enough time had passed to render them all bones and toughened sinew to hold them together. Their meat rotted faster than anything I've ever seen before - in fact I've sat there before watching the meat just slide into the lake like water off a duck's back.
Disgustingly fascinating.
Apparently this isn't the worst of it either. A few of the lost miners have been spotted out in the quarry, all bones and sinew and flailing limbs like the old theatre puppets. If they're coming back then it's only a matter of time before the animals in the lake start to come back and lord only knows how you put down something that doesn't have any blood to lose.
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