[Prompt] #179: Free

[sterling]

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This week's prompt is... #179: Free.

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Mastery (179 - Free)

[tanager]

Title: Mastery
Challenge/Prompt: #179 - Free
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence (not graphic)
Disclaimer: It’s all mine.
Summary: Years upon years of freedom, from everything, to do anything.
Author's Notes: I may write more in this world.


The dream promised freedom.

…from the anxiety that clung like fog to every street and word. A grocery run tugged at spider-threads of alliance and enmity. Chances to kill and gain, exposed―by you? for you? He half-remembers constables, laws, another world's naïve playthings.

Someone was always stronger until no one was. Not this idiot, scavenging the Master's shed. She shatters, begging for her life.

He shuts her up.

Years upon years of freedom, from everything, to do anything. Take―or receive splendid tributes. Command―or accept solicitous service, hear artful ingratiation. Bound in silky ennui, he aches for the bite of fear.