First apologies for the mass bracket use in the title... Continue. So obviously November has ended and ther for NaNoWriMo has ended, I have written 3,507 words in total. I know. I failed misrably, however I do really enjoy writing and creating a world and people of my own. So i'm going to carry on writing even though NaNoWriMo has ended.
Side note: writing NaNoWriMo takes ages!
So for my final Update wrapup sort of thing I present the next crap chapter of my book...
Chapter 3
From her perspective the fight must
have been pitiful. She’d thrust both her sword towards him with uncanny
precision, he’d managed to deflect that blow. Then using his shoulders as a
support she flipped over him and from behind swept his legs out from under
him. She’d dragged him to his feet, and
no amount of thrashing on his part could have broken her grip, from there she
slammed into a wall a few times until he was bordering unconscious. And, that
was where she now held him, with a dagger beneath his chin.
She leant into his face blocking
his sword with her knee, not that he could do much with it in his current
state, and growled into his ear
“Not just your soldiers died today,
what about my people huh?” So she was the one who’d got away, no wonder “just
because they don’t grovel at the feet of your
king” She spat those last words with more venom than he’d ever heard.
Cole took the opening silence as a
chance to voice his questions “Where…how” He flinched as she whipped her head
round to glare at him, cutting millions of invisible scratches into his skin
with strands of her hair in the process. But she was listening “how did you
learn to fight like that?”
“You already know” he opened his
mouth to object but she wasn’t finished “My name is Lillian, yours is Cole”
damn name tags “You probably know me as the shadow” His sharp intake of breath
was enough for her to register his surprise. Of course he knew who the shadow
was: ex-seeker, best of the rogue, most wanted. Who knew they’d have a chance
of catching her!
She suddenly span and slammed him
against the wall, she brought her face so close to his that his vision of her
went fuzzy and duplicated. He could feel the heat of her breath and the drops
of spit landing on his face as she spoke
“If you tell anyone, anyone about my appearance I will
personally hunt you down and return the favour” He knew as well as she did that
it was not an empty threat.
___________
Lillian could see the fear in the
young guard’s eyes. As soon as she’d dropped from the rafters to attack she’d
seen the panic set in and it wasn’t leaving anytime soon. She didn’t mean to be
so intimidating but after everything that had happened she didn’t quite feel
like herself. She released him and with her back turned she heard him slide to
the ground after taking a good couple of breaths; she turned and sat next to
him.
He moved away as quickly as he
could in his current state, which was a mere shuffle. She stood up and began
pacing the anger that had been building inside her began to fizzle and
disappear. How intimidating could she have looked? He’d seemed terrified of her
but had she really looked all that scary? Maybe she had she couldn’t when they
had fought the only thing she had been able to see was red. The red of blood,
of anger, of hatred, she shuffled his trying not to seem to intimidating. She
extended a hand to lift him to his feet, he flinched away. She grabbed him by
the arms and lifted, not helped, but lifted him to his feet. He stood trembling
in the corner that shed dragged him into back when she was unrecognisable to
herself. It was almost comfort to know that inside her was the feral beast that
pretty well how to fight.
“It’s pathetic really, the quality
of the guards they install these days” she scoffed.
“I’m actually considered the best
of my kind” Cole announced holding his chin a little higher as he spoke. That
was until she burst into fits of laughter
“So…You…Sorry” she said composing
herself “you are the best guard in Axos”
“Yes Axos and Pythees and Magmanus
and probably Hycanamie too”
She bit down on her laugh this
time, though a snigger still escaped “The rest of you must be pathetic then”
“Well” Cole paused and though he
tried to hide it, she saw the flash of recognition light up his face, More
guards had arrived “by your standards I guess we are, but it’s not every day
that we fight ex-seekers” She heard the emphasis on the last word, warning the
people who were trying, and failing to sneak up on her.
“Oh by the way” She said casually
acting as if nothing was wrong, then she dropped the bomb “I can hear your
little friends behind me” she turned to face them, caught in their sneaking
they paused and looked sheepish as she stared them down.
“Well…” she was going to say
something but then her eyes latched to something, something lurking near the
back. Prince Alexander. Suddenly she was swept into the memory that still
caused her so much pain. Would he recognise her? No, even though he was such a
bit part of her past, she was an insignificant part of his.
She snarled baring her teeth before
she launched herself at him. Faster than an arrow she struck pushing the prince
to the ground. Before she shoved herself and him onto layer three, she wanted
to take her sweet time getting her revenge on the man she had pinned beneath
her.
See you soon
- A
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