[Fanfic] Old Kingdom drabbles (part 12)
Title: Sports
Prompt: 26 Teammates
“Okay!” yelled the group of young men in clean, clothes. They separated as they entered the field, taking their respective positions.
Sam watched in fascination as they played. He still didn't quite understand the rules but Nick was good about explaining it. As he oft said, “I'm going to go out for it next year. You ought to, too, Sam. You've got some muscles on you.”
Sam chuckled at the 'muscles' remark. You would have muscles, too, if you practiced swordplay daily, too, he thought but was too polite to say because Nick didn't understand the need for a sword.
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Title: Courage
Prompt: 75 Shattered
The scout winced as the... Dead creature shattered on his diamond of protection. His captain moaned as another scout attended to him. They were in deep trouble. The diamond would hold for only so long and he could not cast powerful charter magic without hurting or, possibly, killing himself.
Only the captain was and he was badly injured.
The scout licked his lips as he considered his options. They were limited. Really, what it came down to was how many people they would lose tonight.
Gathering his courage, he linked marks together, and cast them followed by the master mark.
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Title: Practice
Prompt: 16 Purple
Ellimere bit her lip, holding back a pained noise. She could already see her arm purpling from the blunted arrow her father shot. Casting the arrow ward was a lot harder against a real arrow.
“Again, Ellimere,” her father said, notching another arrow.
“Yes, father,” she said, forming the charter marks in her mind and sketching them with her hand in the air. Practice, practice, practice, she thought. That's the only way I will learn. Better to be hurt now than later.
The arrow flew and struck her arrow ward. She held it for three more arrows before it fell.
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Title: Desire
Prompt: 99 Library (Writer's Choice)
Sam's jaw dropped. Lirael almost swore she heard the sound of his jaw hitting his chest echo down the quite spiral of the library. “Wow,” he breathed, reverently.
Lirael smiled. He looked like he had received his heart's desire. Which, when she considered it for a moment, just might be true. Hundreds of years of information lay among the shelves, much of it waiting to be rediscovered by a willing mind.
Yes, Sam had just received his heart's desire. Lirael suspected it they would have to forcibly remove him library. Still, she couldn't wait to see what he would create.
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Title: Gate
Prompt: 5 Last
The Disreputable Dog stared up at the Ninth, and final, Gate. She could hear it calling softly to her, like a lullaby lulling her to restful slumber. To deny that it did not call to her was a complete lie. However, she still had things left undone that had a stronger pull on her than the Gate.
She could hear Lirael splash back down as she pushed aside the call of the stars. Dog focused her hearing on Lirael and explained that the gate was something everyone had to face.
Dog looked at Lirael and knew that she'd chosen correctly.
Prompt: 26 Teammates
“Okay!” yelled the group of young men in clean, clothes. They separated as they entered the field, taking their respective positions.
Sam watched in fascination as they played. He still didn't quite understand the rules but Nick was good about explaining it. As he oft said, “I'm going to go out for it next year. You ought to, too, Sam. You've got some muscles on you.”
Sam chuckled at the 'muscles' remark. You would have muscles, too, if you practiced swordplay daily, too, he thought but was too polite to say because Nick didn't understand the need for a sword.
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Title: Courage
Prompt: 75 Shattered
The scout winced as the... Dead creature shattered on his diamond of protection. His captain moaned as another scout attended to him. They were in deep trouble. The diamond would hold for only so long and he could not cast powerful charter magic without hurting or, possibly, killing himself.
Only the captain was and he was badly injured.
The scout licked his lips as he considered his options. They were limited. Really, what it came down to was how many people they would lose tonight.
Gathering his courage, he linked marks together, and cast them followed by the master mark.
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Title: Practice
Prompt: 16 Purple
Ellimere bit her lip, holding back a pained noise. She could already see her arm purpling from the blunted arrow her father shot. Casting the arrow ward was a lot harder against a real arrow.
“Again, Ellimere,” her father said, notching another arrow.
“Yes, father,” she said, forming the charter marks in her mind and sketching them with her hand in the air. Practice, practice, practice, she thought. That's the only way I will learn. Better to be hurt now than later.
The arrow flew and struck her arrow ward. She held it for three more arrows before it fell.
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Title: Desire
Prompt: 99 Library (Writer's Choice)
Sam's jaw dropped. Lirael almost swore she heard the sound of his jaw hitting his chest echo down the quite spiral of the library. “Wow,” he breathed, reverently.
Lirael smiled. He looked like he had received his heart's desire. Which, when she considered it for a moment, just might be true. Hundreds of years of information lay among the shelves, much of it waiting to be rediscovered by a willing mind.
Yes, Sam had just received his heart's desire. Lirael suspected it they would have to forcibly remove him library. Still, she couldn't wait to see what he would create.
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Title: Gate
Prompt: 5 Last
The Disreputable Dog stared up at the Ninth, and final, Gate. She could hear it calling softly to her, like a lullaby lulling her to restful slumber. To deny that it did not call to her was a complete lie. However, she still had things left undone that had a stronger pull on her than the Gate.
She could hear Lirael splash back down as she pushed aside the call of the stars. Dog focused her hearing on Lirael and explained that the gate was something everyone had to face.
Dog looked at Lirael and knew that she'd chosen correctly.