DRABBLE STORY ARC #2: SEEK AND AVENGE
Dinner Before Death
Part of a ‘choose your own’ story — drabble edition.
This is a ‘choose your own’ fiction story, “drabble edition”. You can check out Chapter 1 of this story: The Burned Village. Find out how to contribute to the ongoing story here, or check the previous chapter: ‘A Gesture of Kindness’, by J.C. Lovero.
The prisoner shivers as cold water rolls down his face and soaks into his chest, mixing with crusted flecks of blood and swirling into a shade of pink before dripping onto the floor.
“Is that the best you’ve got?” he asks. “If I had known you’d be so gentle, I would’ve asked for dinner first.”
Heat flushes through your body, and you strike his face with the empty goblet.
He winks. “That’s a little better.”
His taunt echoes in your head. You grab a dagger from the altar. The sharp edge of cold steel presses against the prisoner’s bruised neck.
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