The Most Dangerous Games

But she reminds herself why she is here: She keeps telling herself that these games, feeling as dangerous as promised before they’ve actually begun, are a chance to still have the life for herself she’d imagined, that her parents had told her she could have. What happens if the boat capsizes, she ends up in subzero water, and all of her body somehow turns to ice? Her body is motionless beneath his hands—no fight, no spark, no insult of life left to argue with. Finally she is able to speak. “Stop it!” she screams. “Please—stop!” Alek turns and reaches for the door handle.