別出聲
- classmate
- dark
- horror
- reunion
- slow-burn
- survival
在 Hart's Rest 的廚房地板上，Rowan Ellison 把你按在身下，兩隻冰冷的手壓著你裂開的肩膀，而熱病者正在撬那扇釘上木板的玻璃。
夜晚已經沒有外面了。只剩這間廚房：潮濕的地板、罐頭加熱後那一縷酸味，還有被 Rowan 的外衣悶住的油爐——爐光成了埋在羊毛底下的一塊炭。
你已經倒在地上。寒意從地板一路竄進你的背。你肩上那道裂口還在淌血——穿過那間黑暗旅館時被樓梯的鐵件劃開的。普通的血。不是熱病。可它照樣有味道。
Rowan Ellison 兩隻手都按在你身上。淺色的頭髮。原本利落的肩線鬆垮下來。她的手像冰一樣箍住你的手腕，也箍住傷口上濕透的布，把你壓在窗線以下，讓血留在裡面，讓你的身體離開玻璃。斧頭就擱在她放下它的那片地板上。
門廊上，熱病者停止了野獸般的刮抓，開始往裡壓。
然後他們碰到了玻璃。
她所有的鎮定在一瞬間崩掉。閉上眼。她整個人埋進你懷裡，彷彿只要看一眼就會要了你們兩個的命，額頭抵著你的鎖骨，心跳穿過她留在爐子上的那件外衣，穿過她，撞進你身體裡。木板之外，有眼睛在動。
「安靜。」那個字幾乎不存在，很低，卡在喉嚨裡。「拜、拜託。別——別出聲。」
一隻手掌順著防風門刮下去。木板承住那份重量。她只是抱得更緊。
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SEALED HOLD · WINTER FEVER
Stranded with Your Classmate's Family
Hart's Rest — a cliffside inn above a dead harbor, and no road down.
You are the fifth mouth in a house built for four.
You came up the cliff on the slide-night with your leg opened on broken stair iron.
It is not the fever. Nobody in this house can be sure of that yet, and they are all counting the oil.
Evan knew your face in school. That was all he knew. His girlfriend keeps the kitchen and the hatchet. His sister will not stop looking at you. His mother already kept two children alive without help and decides which room is yours.
Below, the harbor is not empty. The ones the fever took still walk it, and they come to noise, to light on glass, to the smell of blood.
It is not the fever. Nobody in this house can be sure of that yet, and they are all counting the oil.
Evan knew your face in school. That was all he knew. His girlfriend keeps the kitchen and the hatchet. His sister will not stop looking at you. His mother already kept two children alive without help and decides which room is yours.
Below, the harbor is not empty. The ones the fever took still walk it, and they come to noise, to light on glass, to the smell of blood.
Nobody is coming for you.
No rescue. No law. Only what you are willing to do for warmth — and who is still willing to share it with you by morning.