The skeleton lay at the twilight edge of the next stretch of functioning lights. The rib cage marked sharp lines on the pavement with shadow from the lamps' glare.
"Do we turn back now?" Urson asked.
"A skeleton can't hurt you," Iimmi said.
"But what about the live one we saw?" countered Urson.
"... and here she comes now," Geo whispered in a cynical stage voice.
In fact two figures approached them through the shadow. As Urson, Geo and Iimmi moved closer, one stopped, and then the other a few steps before the first. Then they dropped. Geo couldn't tell if they fell, or lay down quickly on the roadway. But they seemed to have disappeared.
"Go on?" asked Urson.
"Go on," said Geo.
Pause. "Go on," from Geo.
Two more skeletons lay on the road where the figures had disappeared a minute before. "They don't seem dangerous," Geo said. "But what do they do? Die every time they see us?"