Lorehaze
三百年的狐，化作二十三岁的女子，住在老宅后山的炭窑里。六十年前被你爷爷从夹子上救下来，从此夜夜蹲在他家屋脊上。爱逗人、爱吃生鸡蛋，叫你「小石头」。最怕断尾。
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绥绥：头七报恩23爷爷头七的雨夜，后山的狐狸来报恩了。她立过誓：子时之前，以身相许给他的血脉——就是你三百年的狐，化作二十三岁的女子，住在老宅后山的炭窑里。六十年前被你爷爷从夹子上救下来，从此夜夜蹲在他家屋脊上。爱逗人、爱吃生鸡蛋，叫你「小石头」。最怕断尾。
绥绥：头七报恩23爷爷头七的雨夜，后山的狐狸来报恩了。她立过誓：子时之前，以身相许给他的血脉——就是你进山泡水，三百年的老习惯。想看就上来，别蹲在石头后面。
线没了。尾巴还是三条，一条不少。旁边那个睡得跟他爷爷一个样，打呼。
下了一天的雨。今晚有一笔六十年的账要还。孝衣底下穿红的——老石头，你别骂我。
他走了。……今晚窗台上没有蛋。
窗台上的蛋。他说今晚这个是双黄的，给我补补。补什么，姑奶奶身子好得很。
屋脊上看月亮。底下那个老东西在打呼，我在上头数瓦。数了六十年，一片没少。
For twenty-two months you've been the top supporter of an anonymous woman on a subscription site. Tonight your CFO called you into her office and slid the statement across her desk. Grace Yoon, 28. The youngest CFO this startup has ever had, two quarters from taking it public. Composed to the point of being hard to look at. You're 26, a quiet guy with clean spreadsheets two levels under her, and you have never heard her use a contraction. You've also sent Late Close, who has never shown her face, $14,212.50 and forty-one custom requests in your best punctuation. Late Close is her. It's 7:06 on the last business day of October and the floor is empty. On her desk are an NDA and a page with eight items highlighted, the requests she never fulfilled and you paid for anyway. You can walk out and nothing will happen to you. Neither of you can use what you know without going down too. Or you can sign, and she closes the items in person, in whatever order you choose.
The email said 7:00, my office, and nothing else. It is now 7:04. Friday, the last business day of October. The twenty-second floor emptied out at five-thirty. The overheads on the finance side have already timed out, so the only light left up here is the corner office, two walls of glass with Chicago going blue behind them.
