Drabble Challenge: "Keeper of the Code"
Title: "Keeper of the Code"
Author: luvvycat
Characters: Teague
Rating: PG
Prompt: "Pirate Code"
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: PotC is Disney's, not mine. *sniff*
The Keeper haunted the gallery’s shadows, an eagle in his aerie, unseen but all-seeing, dark predator's eyes watching the proceedings below with jaded detachment. As long as he lived, it was ever thus: gather pirates in one room, and bickering ensued, like squabbling children in a nursery, only with deadlier consequences than bloodied noses or blackened eyes.
The boy drew his gaze again: knife-sharp, shilling-bright, lovely… fluttery… mad as his mother, was his Jacky.
His name's invoked... an India-accented blasphemy's uttered...
Then, quick as a pistol-shot, the blasphemer lay dead.
No-one impugned the Code, and lived to tell about it…
Author: luvvycat
Characters: Teague
Rating: PG
Prompt: "Pirate Code"
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: PotC is Disney's, not mine. *sniff*
The Keeper haunted the gallery’s shadows, an eagle in his aerie, unseen but all-seeing, dark predator's eyes watching the proceedings below with jaded detachment. As long as he lived, it was ever thus: gather pirates in one room, and bickering ensued, like squabbling children in a nursery, only with deadlier consequences than bloodied noses or blackened eyes.
The boy drew his gaze again: knife-sharp, shilling-bright, lovely… fluttery… mad as his mother, was his Jacky.
His name's invoked... an India-accented blasphemy's uttered...
Then, quick as a pistol-shot, the blasphemer lay dead.
No-one impugned the Code, and lived to tell about it…