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Overhasty: fantasy
Apr. 16th, 2007 01:19 pm"Kill her."
"Let's not be overhasty--"
Miranda's skin started to sweat again. She was still terrified, but not the bone-dry terror of a few minutes ago. If the elders decided to kill her, she would have no chance to escape. She could run as far as she chose, and still her fate would find her, at the hands of a stranger, or a child, or an animal, or some creature gone and away before any could try and punish it. It would probably look like an accident. She had resigned herself to death., and her body had begun to prepare. Now hope breathed back into her, and with it the natural responses of a body in terror. She nearly pissed herself.
"What do you suggest?"
"Reparations."
Miranda nearly fainted with relief. Reparations would be terrible and painful and--
Inspiration: "overhasty"
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Pretty standard beginning to a quest-type story.
"Let's not be overhasty--"
Miranda's skin started to sweat again. She was still terrified, but not the bone-dry terror of a few minutes ago. If the elders decided to kill her, she would have no chance to escape. She could run as far as she chose, and still her fate would find her, at the hands of a stranger, or a child, or an animal, or some creature gone and away before any could try and punish it. It would probably look like an accident. She had resigned herself to death., and her body had begun to prepare. Now hope breathed back into her, and with it the natural responses of a body in terror. She nearly pissed herself.
"What do you suggest?"
"Reparations."
Miranda nearly fainted with relief. Reparations would be terrible and painful and--
Inspiration: "overhasty"
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Pretty standard beginning to a quest-type story.
