Charloft: Thursday: instructing someone else
Doubling up for 100 drabbles of summer 2012
83) Author's choice: instructing someone else
Muse: Ariella
"No no no!" I yelled, patience snapping. "You need to be firm, don't yield to their suggestions.
Ash glanced at me. "I'm… not sure if that is a good idea."
Was he talking to me or them? "They're just suggesting these paths because they have family that way. But the only way to save them is to euthanize where the disease already is."
He stuttered a version of what I said. We all stood around a crude map. Not one of the men noticed me. I was a woman so I couldn't possibly be clever.
Yet I was in charge.
83) Author's choice: instructing someone else
Muse: Ariella
"No no no!" I yelled, patience snapping. "You need to be firm, don't yield to their suggestions.
Ash glanced at me. "I'm… not sure if that is a good idea."
Was he talking to me or them? "They're just suggesting these paths because they have family that way. But the only way to save them is to euthanize where the disease already is."
He stuttered a version of what I said. We all stood around a crude map. Not one of the men noticed me. I was a woman so I couldn't possibly be clever.
Yet I was in charge.