FABLE
Tendrils of heavy perfume reach out through the air, wrap around me and pull me in like spectral hands, towards their source – the blood red roses that curl around the cabin's porch.
Light streams through the trees up ahead as I step into the clearing.
The cabin's waiting for me, the front door wide open. Sunbeams glint off the stained glass windows set into moss-encrusted stone.
Yesterday the storybook sight filled me with childlike wonder.
Now it fills me with a sudden rush of terror, ancient and primal.
An echo of that day on the bus, watching my classmates drowned and impaled and cracked open. And of another, older horror. Locked away but just beneath the surface.
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