Spooky scary skeletons

He had only poked his nose down before, too worried about drifts of snow falling through the ceiling and bringing the whole place down around his ears to explore it properly. Now he slipped beneath the ground to escape the last of autumn's heat, shaking his pelt out once he hit the floor, basking in the subterranean coolness that permeated the place.

It smelled musty, motes dancing through the beams of light that shot down from small breaks in the roof overhead and he wondered if they were made, or just a sign of his impending fear of collapse? He moved to make room for Siduri to join him, taking in the rotted cloth that seemed to wrap around long since desiccated corpses of strange monkey-like beasts, the corner of his mouth pulling down in revulsion. There was something about the way the bones were put together that simply looked... wrong. He even tried to mimic the way the bones were laid out by rising up on his hind legs and dropping his forepaws down but he quickly lost his balance.

A cold shiver ran down his spine. "What do you think they were?"

"speech"