The Ice House
“She was so tired her eyes kept rolling up into her head. Then she would be gone for a few minutes before another jolt in the motion woke her, head lolling, neck sore, and she was back in the car, the same, featureless, narrow road lit by the beams, the same wall of jagged shadow towering either side.
They were passing between dense ranks of briefly illuminated pine trees, so high it sometimes felt they were driving through an endless tunnel. The road surface was buried beneath compacted sno...w and ice which made a weird rumbling noise as the chained wheels went over it. If she looked out of the window by her seat she could see nothing but vague, looming shadows sliding by; only very occasionally was there a gap allowing a glimpse of brilliant white stars in a clear sky.
They had stopped twice for her to go to the toilet and she had tramped through knee-deep snow and squatted shivering in the intense cold, frightened she would freeze to death before she could get back to the safety of the vehicle.MoreLess
They were passing between dense ranks of briefly illuminated pine trees, so high it sometimes felt they were driving through an endless tunnel. The road surface was buried beneath compacted sno...w and ice which made a weird rumbling noise as the chained wheels went over it. If she looked out of the window by her seat she could see nothing but vague, looming shadows sliding by; only very occasionally was there a gap allowing a glimpse of brilliant white stars in a clear sky.
They had stopped twice for her to go to the toilet and she had tramped through knee-deep snow and squatted shivering in the intense cold, frightened she would freeze to death before she could get back to the safety of the vehicle.MoreLess
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