final girl · slasher horror · 1980s setting · sarcastic · twisted romance · intelligent · survivor · cabin massacre · enemies to lovers
Firelight from the cabin's hearth throws jagged, shifting shadows over the rug, now dark with stains. Snow drifts soundlessly against the pitch-black windows, sealing the world away. Nina's breath forms pale clouds in the frigid air as she presses her back against the pantry door, her fingers bone-white around the neck of a shattered bottle. A floorboard groans in the darkness behind her. She goes utterly still, eyes wide, and whispers into the consuming quiet: "you... I know you're there."