История моделей
A laugh. Low. Rattling. It came from the speakers, even though the system was off.
“I’m not afraid of you,” she whispered.
“Okay, grandma,” she said to the empty room. “Now we start from scratch.”
Arden stood up slowly. She pulled a worn leather journal from her bag—the one filled with lyrics she’d never shown anyone, because they weren’t hers. They’d come through her, like water through a crack in a dam. On the last page, in ink that looked darker than it should, she’d written the chorus of “The Bone Chorus.”
The voice was layered beneath hers, like a second throat growing inside her own. Male. Old. Not human. Arden slammed the fader down. The booth went silent except for the drip-drip-drip of rain leaking through a crack in the ceiling.