The Poisoned Well
It all started when Damon tried to make tea. The water from the tap hissed, but not due to high pressure. The hiss was more serpentine, more alive, as if the water was angry at having to come out of the tap. He turned it off quickly before filling the kettle from a few bottles of water instead. He more or less forgot about it until he started rinsing out his mug when he was done with his tea. The sink hissed again. Still, he wanted to rinse out his mug, so I gritted his teeth and braved the hissing spray of water. The water steamed as it hit his mug, but he managed to rinse it out. However, before putting the mug on the drying rack, he noticed it had a strange smell. It smelled like burning sulfur. He dried the mug off with a dish towel then put it on the drying rack, and made a mental note to say something to Bette about it later that day. He looked around on the internet briefly, searching why his water smells like sulfur, or why it might be hissing, or steaming. When he was done, he