DRABBLE–ISH STORY ARC #6: HUNTING A DEMON
The Child’s Incantation
A chapter of a ‘choose your own’ story — drabble edition!
This is a continuation of Hunting a Demon, a Choose Your Own Adventure Story started by JF Danskin and written in drabbles and double drabbles. Find out more here, or return to the previous chapter: ‘The Boat’ or ‘Theft Among the Fishes’.
You feel sure the fish-warrior is out for your blood. You hunker down, checking your arrows. There are ten left.
Just then, Angelika mutters a phrase in a mysterious language. You stare at her, wondering if it’s a peculiar dialect – people in the mountains are pretty weird, that’s well known.
But then you see that she is chanting a spell. And as she incants, a cloud of crackling red fog leaves her hands, and spreads over the area. Finnart touches it, but shrieks in pain. Soon, the warriors have dispersed.
“You’re more resourceful than I realized,” you comment.
Continue.
Thanks for reading! This drabble responded to one of Grim Flandango’s daily word prompts (‘resourceful’).
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