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For 20weeks's first challenge: Anticipation
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It was always the same. Too long on land, and he started itchin' to be back in his sky again. A man just couldn't belong to himself standing on land someone else owned. He wasn’t free there.
He knew he ought to think of her as his ship, but that seemed wrong somehow. He belonged to Serenity as much as she belonged to him. And he knew she couldn't wait to claim a bit of sky for the both of them. She told him in the way she rumbled when she was ready to be free of the ground, too.
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Made myself stick to 100 words precisely. Because it's hard. :D
*****
It was always the same. Too long on land, and he started itchin' to be back in his sky again. A man just couldn't belong to himself standing on land someone else owned. He wasn’t free there.
He knew he ought to think of her as his ship, but that seemed wrong somehow. He belonged to Serenity as much as she belonged to him. And he knew she couldn't wait to claim a bit of sky for the both of them. She told him in the way she rumbled when she was ready to be free of the ground, too.
*****
Made myself stick to 100 words precisely. Because it's hard. :D