“A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood. It stood in front of Royce. Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. Its armor seemed to change color as it moved; here it was white as new-fallen snow, there black as shadow, everywhere dappled with the deep greygreen of the trees. The patterns ran like moonlight on water with every step it took. ”像透镜一样让新雪,冰湖与密林交织,一个瘦削的暗冷精灵的形象(原著的异鬼很美)
序章的高潮
“The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking. ”
声学的维度(看建构这种冰湖碎裂的声音应该要用到很多爆破音和喉塞音)
“ It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so thin that it seemed almost to vanish when seen edge-on. There was a faint blue shimmer to the thing, a ghost-light that played around its edges, and somehow Will knew it was sharper than any razor. ”以及冰剑的刻画
几个维度互相补充提供了异鬼的基本设定