Thursday 29 January 2015

Next Chapter



It had taken me weeks, but I finally made it into the Leader’s office. He didn’t look up, as he studied an old tome on a small stand.

“Speak.” he said without looking up.

“O Grand Leader, who-“

“Out with it.”

It took me a moment to regroup.

“I… My wife has been banished from the Family, and I was-“

“Why was she banished?”

“She… She was very sick, she didn’t mean what she said-“

He looked at me for the first time. I saw no sympathy, no give.

My story ended with the sound of a book slamming shut.

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