Challenge 19 entry
Well, I've finally finished my exams, so now I have time to get this community running again. I've just knocked out the drabble I planned ages ago for our last challenge, so I'll post that and then put up the new prompt. :)
Title: Subterfuge
Prompt: #19 - Intrigue
Rating: G
Characters: Sool, Trouble
Points to: The Unofficial Jade Princess Fan Club
Words: 200
Sool began to hear whispers. Every day, at work, there was something.
But whenever he got close enough to hear their hushed tones, they stopped talking.
Soon it was everywhere, spreading like a virus, this one whisper he couldn't catch. What were they planning? He must know!
He tried hiding in corners, planting microphones, bribing anyone he could. But he found nothing. He began monitoring all communications and having Major Kelp, the suspected ringleader, followed.
It was all he could think about, for all his waking hours. And he had so many of those now: he'd stopped sleeping. He couldn't rest until he'd cracked it - until he had evidence for the Council that showed the whole LEP was corrupt and working against him. He was obsessed.
Then one day Trouble offered him a pomegranate in the canteen, and Sool lost it.
“No, I won't take it! I won't let you trap me! I'll get you all, I'll work out what you're up to!” He ranted and foamed at the mouth with the whole room staring.
He was still raving as the elves in white coats came to quietly lead him away.
Sool never realised that the plan had worked perfectly.
Title: Subterfuge
Prompt: #19 - Intrigue
Rating: G
Characters: Sool, Trouble
Points to: The Unofficial Jade Princess Fan Club
Words: 200
Sool began to hear whispers. Every day, at work, there was something.
But whenever he got close enough to hear their hushed tones, they stopped talking.
Soon it was everywhere, spreading like a virus, this one whisper he couldn't catch. What were they planning? He must know!
He tried hiding in corners, planting microphones, bribing anyone he could. But he found nothing. He began monitoring all communications and having Major Kelp, the suspected ringleader, followed.
It was all he could think about, for all his waking hours. And he had so many of those now: he'd stopped sleeping. He couldn't rest until he'd cracked it - until he had evidence for the Council that showed the whole LEP was corrupt and working against him. He was obsessed.
Then one day Trouble offered him a pomegranate in the canteen, and Sool lost it.
“No, I won't take it! I won't let you trap me! I'll get you all, I'll work out what you're up to!” He ranted and foamed at the mouth with the whole room staring.
He was still raving as the elves in white coats came to quietly lead him away.
Sool never realised that the plan had worked perfectly.