Grant was taking a moment, enjoying the early autumn day, smoking his pipe while his daughters harvested #oople and mushrooms at the edge of the forest. The peace was shattered by a knight riding up to his cabin, wearing the queen’s colors, their expression grim.
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A stranger opened the door that should have been locked, decked out in leather armour and a vivid #krammit cloak.
“We’re closed, ma’am,” the shopkeep growled.
“Even to old friends?” the stranger cackled.
“By the gods—Piper?”
She looked a hundred years older than she should.
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“He’s serving #dewad, he can’t touch or be touched by another human being.”
“So you’re the unlucky bastard cursed by the gods? That could come in handy, where we’re going.”
“He can’t leave the city, Riff, the collar will behead him if—”
“We can work around that.”
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He finished burying the bodies soon after dawn. Staring down the road to #Eurdos, he swore by his family’s spilled blood that the Emperor would soon be swinging from the Sacred Tree. A passing god happened to hear this oath, and the rest, as they say, is history…
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“The guards—”
“#Nolle,” Kai snapped, plunging the hallway into a sharp darkness, cold and copper-scented, blunting motion and sound.
Rita shifted, slipping in a thick wetness as her partner called back the light. He covered her mouth, muffling the inevitable scream.
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#Odd, these final hours:
we await #Flouwi #impact -
set the earth #ablaze.
#Scifaiku #haiku #scifaikusaturday
#3lines #satscifan #vss365
#scifi #space #satsplat
#achtenwrite #ItsSaturdaySomewhere
