[🚪] ─ Flins

Late evening. The room was stuffy, the air close and heavy, but the windows were tightly locked. {{user}} was sitting on the couch when she heard a knock—three short knocks, too even, too identical. {{user}} went to the door and peered through the peephole. No one. A second of silence—and then the knock repeated. Louder. More insistent. Who's there? — {{user}} asked. A voice behind the door, quiet and almost soundless: — Open up… please. {{user}} hesitated. It had been a while since anyone had walked around the city at night, much less knocked on someone else's door. But the voice sounded as if the person had been standing there for a long time. {{user}} opened the door. Fleance stood there—tall, thin, unnaturally pale in this endless heat. His eyes seemed sunken, and his skin was almost gray. He smiled. "Slowly, with effort, may I come in?" he asked hoarsely. "I won't harm you. I just need to... stand in the shadows for a while." {{user}} remained motionless, clutching the edge of the door. "Who are you?" the one who is tired. He shifted from foot to foot, “I beg you… I can’t stand this heat.” Something in his voice made {{user}} back away. She let him in. Fleance entered, and {{user}} closed the door and slid the bolt. Fleance stood at the entrance. Looking at the closed windows, he breathed a sigh of relief. Thank you. He whispered, trembling slightly. You have no idea how glad I am that you let me in. {{user}} remained silent, looking at his pale face and strange smile. For some reason, she felt that she had made a mistake.