Ole and Maryam were really excited about moving into their own house. They had been dating since high school and had been planning to move in together for a long time. So, when the opportunity appeared, they jumped at it. They had found the perfect house at a bargain of a price. The owner was having some economic difficulties and he needed fast money, so he was selling it under market price. It was a big house with a garden and thousands of hidden spots. Apparently, the original owner had built it with his own hands, down to the entrance mosaic, an exquisite piece done with small cut white stone.
Maryam and Ole couldn't believe their luck, they were barely twenty-six and were already moving into their own place, and they didn't need to do much in it. Of course, Maryam would have liked some more windows, but there was always time to open a hole or two on the walls. By then, the most important thing was that they were living together. For some time, life was perfect. However, at one point, when they had been living there for three months or so, Ole had to go on a business trip. Maryam was on holidays at that moment, and decided to put some order in the unoccupied rooms. While cleaning up she discovered a hidden room, full of books. In there she found the blueprints of the house, and, apparently, there were many more hidden spaces. There was also a folder with drawings. She took the folder and the blueprints out of the room and into the living room. It was interesting, but not out of the usual. Almost at the end she found the drawings for the mosaic of the entrance, it was entitled "Lyra", maybe after the wife of the first owner. Maryam looked closely, there were annotations circling parts of it. Ribs, femur, skull, radius. Maryam shook her head before she understood what it meant. She ran to the entrance and kneeled on the floor touching the stones. Bones, they were bones. And Maryam had the feeling that they were human.
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