SJ Longthorne

GAME TIME! (Thread) I’m gonna write a line of a story. The first reply continues/develops the story, and the one after that, and so on and so forth. Multiple replies branch the narrative. Reply to whichever branch you want. I’ll go first...

‘The sound came from behind her, from somewhere in the fog.’

The parade had almost caught up to her.

She slowed to listen.

They were only boy scouts, after all. Nothing to be scared of. But that was when she heard more sounds - another parade coming from up ahead, and yet another from the fog off to the right. They were converging.

She considered moment longer. She’d *thought* they were boy scouts; at least, they’d looked like them when she looked at them directly. But when she turned away... What she saw in her periphery was something else. And now, more we’re coming.

At her hip, the worn scabard was begging to be used.

But when she looked at them — looked at them directly — she saw only red-cheeked boys, boys who had never heard a hard word. And when one of them looked at her, he seemed to be saying, “you wouldn’t hurt me, would you?”