Whiteland by Rosie Cranie-Higgs

Author:Rosie Cranie-Higgs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction & literature, horror, literary horror, dark fantasy, ghost fiction, gothic fiction, supernatural, switzerland
Publisher: BHC Press
Published: 2020-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

And this is his travelling companion. Callum stares. ‘I thought you were afraid.’

‘I am.’ Kira glances back, a silhouette flickering in the painted yellow glow. ‘But I’d rather get it over with. Overthinking is an art form, and I’m better at it than I am at oils.’

‘How good are you at oils?’

‘Very.’

Callum flashes his eyebrows. ‘Fair enough.’

‘And besides.’ Kira lifts her voice. It wavers. ‘Based on the way the trees became a cliff, we can’t just head on home.’

She has a point. Begrudgingly, Callum steps onto the woodchips. Their crunch is muted. He’d rather it was loud. For all his joking, he’s afraid, too.

‘We’re going on a bear hunt!’ he mutters, as the road fades and the forest enfolds them. The silence is an eiderdown. No rustling leaves, no creaking branches, no shifting of a breeze. No cheeping birds, of the kind who wake you at dawn in the spring. He pulls a series of faces, each more gaudy than the last. It’s far too bloody quiet.

‘Oh, a forest!’ he continues, soft beneath his breath. The eiderdown stifles his mind, smothering his lungs. ‘A really tall forest! We can’t go over it, can’t go under it. I guess we’re going through it.’ He sweeps the torch beam behind them. Snow, skeletal branches, dark. ‘We’re going on a bear hunt.’

‘There’d better not be bears in here.’ Kira shoots him a look. ‘If there are, you really need to work on your reveals. Riddles are also not okay.’

In two long strides, Callum is beside her. ‘There are no bears,’ he says, shining the torch into the trees. ‘It’s a kids’ book.’ He arcs the beam back to the path. ‘It seemed to fit. You said we need distractions, to ward off the psycho and the lovesick fool.’

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