Drabble - Wire in the Blood - Tony
now and at the hour of our death
Tony, The Last Temptation, novel canon, 100 words.
. . .
He's had to kill to save his own life; this is a fact he's learned to live with. Tonight he's discovered new knowledge: he would die to keep Carol safe.
As he lies there, cold and naked, he wonders if it is enough. He doesn't think Radecki will kill her, but he has been wrong before. He would pray, but he doubts that a God he's never had time for will listen to him.
It's unfair that things should go so spectacularly wrong just when he thought they were beginning to go right.
He should have known better, he thinks.
Tony, The Last Temptation, novel canon, 100 words.
. . .
He's had to kill to save his own life; this is a fact he's learned to live with. Tonight he's discovered new knowledge: he would die to keep Carol safe.
As he lies there, cold and naked, he wonders if it is enough. He doesn't think Radecki will kill her, but he has been wrong before. He would pray, but he doubts that a God he's never had time for will listen to him.
It's unfair that things should go so spectacularly wrong just when he thought they were beginning to go right.
He should have known better, he thinks.