Flame and Blade
Title: Flame and Blade
House: Hufflepuff
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Elements
Characters: Helga Hufflepuff, unnamed Muggles
Under half a moon, flames licked the air; chance-met witch and Muggle stared through them at each other, shadowed eyes hard to meet, though silver light and red gleamed now and again on tears. A child's scream of pain faded to fitful crying.
Magic had lit the fire; with everything drenched from days of rain, nothing else could. And fire had cleansed the knife.
"It's done," Helga told the mother softly, coming around the fire with the child in her arms. "I hated to reopen it, but the cut had turned poison. The fever should go down before long."
House: Hufflepuff
Word Count: 100
Challenge: Elements
Characters: Helga Hufflepuff, unnamed Muggles
Under half a moon, flames licked the air; chance-met witch and Muggle stared through them at each other, shadowed eyes hard to meet, though silver light and red gleamed now and again on tears. A child's scream of pain faded to fitful crying.
Magic had lit the fire; with everything drenched from days of rain, nothing else could. And fire had cleansed the knife.
"It's done," Helga told the mother softly, coming around the fire with the child in her arms. "I hated to reopen it, but the cut had turned poison. The fever should go down before long."