Drabble: Equipment
EQUIPMENT
The bailiff strode decisively into his chambers and stopped short. There, sprawled on his bed, was a raven-haired beauty.
“Woman, shouldn’t you be in shackles?”
“But…” she gasped. “You had me removed from the dungeons for good behavior!”
He grinned mischievously while dangling a pair of manacles. “That doesn’t mean I don’t want you bound.”
“Oh, Vaizey,” Bertha crooned.
In the dungeons, a perturbed jailer searched. He would speak to the sheriff! Last week, it was his favorite whip missing and now a pair of manacles and collar had disappeared. Nottingham had the most ill-equipped dungeons in all of England!