Fever (1990)
““No moon tonight,” Livie says.
“The dark of the moon,” Janet says softly, and shivers. The summer night is cool at this altitude, out here on the edge of the forest.
“Can’t see a goddam thing,” Nathan says. “Well, let’s strike out. They aren’t going to come for us.” Crickets, or is it frogs, are singing loudly and steadily with an immediacy that the human voices don’t have. The three of them stumble across the gravelled parking lot behind the row of parked cars, trying to find their way in the ...dark. When they reach the slowly rising sweep of grass—they hear it against their sandals and feel it on their bare ankles—they suddenly see firelight not so far ahead, just inside the forest’s edge. It flickers and glows between the straight black trunks of the lodgepole pines. There must be a clearing ahead. It’s been so dry up here that open fires are forbidden except where the park attendants have dug pits and circled them with rocks.
“Those stars are incredible,”MoreLess
“The dark of the moon,” Janet says softly, and shivers. The summer night is cool at this altitude, out here on the edge of the forest.
“Can’t see a goddam thing,” Nathan says. “Well, let’s strike out. They aren’t going to come for us.” Crickets, or is it frogs, are singing loudly and steadily with an immediacy that the human voices don’t have. The three of them stumble across the gravelled parking lot behind the row of parked cars, trying to find their way in the ...dark. When they reach the slowly rising sweep of grass—they hear it against their sandals and feel it on their bare ankles—they suddenly see firelight not so far ahead, just inside the forest’s edge. It flickers and glows between the straight black trunks of the lodgepole pines. There must be a clearing ahead. It’s been so dry up here that open fires are forbidden except where the park attendants have dug pits and circled them with rocks.
“Those stars are incredible,”MoreLess
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