Rachel's Drabble: Reward
girlspell won my little challenge yesterday, and her prize was a drabble written to her specifications. The prompt she gave me was the following six things, in this (alphabetical ) order: beach, Ginny, Harry, Kitten, Madam [fill in the blank], starfish. I thought I'd give myself the extra challenge of not actually using any of those words.
Title: Reward
Length: 100 words
Rating: G
Genre: Fluff (?!)
Sand surrendered to the waves as they burst over it. Her red hair tangled with his black.
She ran her fingers over his hand as the spray made their faces shine. There was a network of tiny scratches on his wrist and the backs of his knuckles - itchy, sharp little trophies from playing with young Needlefoot, who hadn’t yet learned to retract her claws. Their old matron had chuckled over these and refused to do anything about them - she rather liked the shape, she said, which reminded her of a sea star.
They were the only scars he had left.