outward bound | sotto voce | towerfall

[sideways]

Title: Outward Bound
Rating: G
Series: Sunless Sea
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - "For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting. -- Haruki Murakami.

He soft-foots through the study, hands carefully clear of the shelves. Flotsam and jetsam. A whispering block of red stone; a tiny metal heart; a jar of lurid green. The creature inside holds his gaze a moment, then disdainfully turns inside out.

“What is it, boy?” the captain says, at their desk. “Is it still ‘boy’?”

Could, but doesn’t: how long gone this time?

Could, but doesn’t: you’d know if you were ever-

Does: “Da has dinner ready. Will you be down?”

The lamp is dim, making a shadow of the hunching shape bent over worn charts. “In a while.” 

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Title: Sotto Voce
Rating: G
Wordcount: 100
Genre: Fantasy
Remarks: 100words prompt - allowed/aloud

“Hush,” she whispers. Palms cupped against his cheeks, fingernails painful prick-points along his hairline, lips close enough to move his own in synchronisation. A stronger grip than he would have expected from a maiden of the temple, but if he should shift, strike-

“Hush, little thief,” she breathes with the air drawn from his lungs. “Be still. Hold your tongue.”

Behind her the statue of the Blind Lady stands tall, hand to the blade sculpted at her hip. Moonlight had lit her face when he entered; now it lies in shadow, turned downward towards them.

“If you wish it kept.” 

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Title: Towerfall
Series: Bungie's Destiny
Rating: G
Wordcount: 70
Summary: Shin and the Red War.

The City burns. Shin finds out, after.

“You call yourself a Guardian?” someone shouts, up in his face, smoke rough in their lungs and familiar in his head. The flap of their mark is torn and bloody, resurrections too hasty in the heat of battle to mend every detail.

“No,” he says, truthful.

He knows the law and the lore. Guardians protect. Guardians prevent.

Shin has always been the aftermath.

Comments

[hokuton_punch]

♥ These are all beautiful (and the last one hurts wonderfully).

[sideways]

Thanks! C: I realised the Shin drabble is a little outdated now, though - no resurrections in the Red War! Haha...ha...

[cloudwrack]

I love all of these! I've never played any Sunless Sea (just a little bit of Fallen London, back when it first came out), but loved the little bits of description vs. things left unsaid in the first scene. The second one is a very cool snapshot of what sounds like an intriguing setting. And Shin still breaks my heart. ;o;

[sideways]

The funnest thing about 100 word drabbles is getting to do very lazy worldbuilding where you can throw concepts around without having to actually develop them >>