Welcome to FB3X Drabble Cascade #114 - This week's word of the week is 'egg'.
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AND NOW - on to the fiction :)
AND NOW - on to the fiction :)
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by Sophie Duncan
Author's Note
I'm trying to do something a little different this year. For those of you who don't know, unless it's a week inspired by a holiday, or memorable occasion, our word of the week is picked by opening up a dictionary to a random location, waving a finger about without looking at the page and pointing it to a word, i.e. it's chance. So, this year, rather than standalone drabbles, I am going to try writing a coherent story, Flight of Fire, in 100 word episodes, each one inspired by the word of the week. I have a vague outline for characters and direction of Flight of Fire, but specifics will be decided by the word of the week.
I have to say, I was a little stumped on this one until I realised that we have the verb 'to egg on'', to encourage, and then everything slipped into place, because, that's what is going on in the story at the moment anyway :).
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Stephan looked slowly upwards, his eyes running over scales of burnished bronze, awe swirling with magic in his chest. The fear held him for only a few seconds, power swamping it, and he stepped closer.
Air wafted past, a huge wing slipping round him. Stephan shivered at the brush of leathery strength that urged him yet closer. Holding out his hand to the armoured breast before him, Stephan closed his eyes, togetherness possessing him once more.
Strange magic coursed through him, compulsive, warm, needed.
“Hello,” he murmured.
‘Greetings, Sorcerer,’ the words reverberated through his head.
Nose humming, Stephan smiled.
Air wafted past, a huge wing slipping round him. Stephan shivered at the brush of leathery strength that urged him yet closer. Holding out his hand to the armoured breast before him, Stephan closed his eyes, togetherness possessing him once more.
Strange magic coursed through him, compulsive, warm, needed.
“Hello,” he murmured.
‘Greetings, Sorcerer,’ the words reverberated through his head.
Nose humming, Stephan smiled.
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Just A Vision Quest (PG, Fantasy)
Author's Note
People shouldn't pick up strange eggs - they have no idea what will happen ;)
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by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Author's Note
People shouldn't pick up strange eggs - they have no idea what will happen ;)
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You go into the mountain with nothing, you're supposed to come out with nothing; Niahl felt very awkward carrying an egg.
"Apprentice what is that?" Rathorn, master of ceremonies bellowed at him.
"It insisted," was all Niahl had to say.
He had tried to leave the egg behind, but from the moment he tripped over it he hadn't been able to put it down. Only he could find an egg on a vision quest.
"Rathorn," Adept Elise said in her usual calm tones, "have the dragons returned?"
Niahl didn't like the look of shock and dawning worry on Rathorn's face.
"Apprentice what is that?" Rathorn, master of ceremonies bellowed at him.
"It insisted," was all Niahl had to say.
He had tried to leave the egg behind, but from the moment he tripped over it he hadn't been able to put it down. Only he could find an egg on a vision quest.
"Rathorn," Adept Elise said in her usual calm tones, "have the dragons returned?"
Niahl didn't like the look of shock and dawning worry on Rathorn's face.
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Flight of Fire (#22): Will there be jealousy resulting from Stephan’s encroachment?
ReplyDeleteWatching the remake of King Kong it hurt that a romance between Kong and whatever her name was would never work. Even if the animal/human sex factor could be overcome, the size difference wouldn’t allow for their love to be consummated. Same here with big, bronze and scaled.
*smiles* I loved McCaffrey’s Pern novels too.
Just a Vision Quest: The idea that an egg could ‘attach’ itself to an apprentice and oohhh dragons. Now is Rathom worrying about; the return of dragons as in ‘humans are crunchy and taste good with catsup’, that the level of magic is rising as evidenced by the egg’s control of being brought out of the mountain , that Niahl might develop into a magical being beyond his ability to teach/control,
If I say it's going to get interesting....I'll leave it at that. :) And yeah, it was always a shame about Kong and the love of his life being smaller than his d-er-hand :)
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