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[shayna611]

Cinnamon Swirl #10. Center Stage with Malt
Story : knights & necromancers
Rating : PG
Timeframe : 1260 (after the battle)
Word Count : 450
Malt Prompt : (summer challenge) Fighting was nice and beautiful and fun but dying was impractical

Comments

[lady_macbeth_19]

Wow. You really described the battle and Tristan's determination so well! How did he hurt his stomach?
XxLil

[shayna611]

Thanks :)

I really need to get around to writing the battle. It's a MAJOR plot point I've been procrastinating forever. He takes a few demon claws across the front. It should have killed him.

[kay_brooke]

Ooh, dying thoughts. They're very evocative.

Was he saved in the end, or did he actually die?

[shayna611]

Thanks :)

He does survive in the end. Sethan comes along to scrape him off the field.

[ichthusfish]

Aww, poor Tristan. Nice moment where he's trying to bring the temple to himself without understanding it, though I kind of wonder what he would have achieved if he'd succeded :)

[shayna611]

Thanks! :)

What success he did have did manage to keep him alive at least. I suppose it might have been a little messy if he was completely in the temple, since it was also busy saving Kairn and Sham.

[smoothiegarten]

Ooh. Is this another instance of Tristan being in two places at once? This is so horribly disorienting, and a horrible situation for him. I hope someone will help him soon! That pain in his stomach does not sound good.

[shayna611]

Thanks! :)

Yes, it's sort of a combined effort between Tristan (who doesn't know he's doing it) and the Temple. As Sethan will point out when he meets him the next morning, there's a gaping hole in his gut. Someday I will get around to the battle and exactly how he got it.

[hi_falootin]

lol I read this like five times over. For 450 words there's a lot going on! And all I can think of to say is that I like it! You haven't done this scene from Sethan's POV yet, have you? I'm curious how they get him off the field in one piece...

[shayna611]

Thanks! :)

I actually introduced Sethan with the morning after scene (http://community.livejournal.com/runaway_tales/15851.html) - yeeeah, he's come a long way.... Basically he comes looking to make sure Sham got away and stumbles across him and feeds him enough magic to survive being hauled away.