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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Today's #flashfiction #TheKnightsAndTheirBattle

“1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.”
HAL 9000* #quote

      Today I got a cool card and present from my Grandpa and Grandma Nolan in the mail. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Knights And Their Battle

       Elves. Long living beings of power and pride. Knights. Also beings of pride of power. An elvish knight was often the most prideful and powerful of them all. Place two against each other with blades enchanted to never wear and something both ugly and beautiful can take place.
        Violence always carries an ugliness to it, but a beauty formed as the two elvish knights clashed their blades in a skillful dance of devotion to their craft with rattles of steel making a song. They fought over a war long since ended a hundred years ago and thought of negotiation never crossed their mind. They drew from the magic in their elvish body to keep fighting and fighting without pause.
        Rain soaked their armor on some days and without magic to protect it like it did their blades it would have rusted off. But like moving monuments they stayed in the forest as seasons passed.

       The battle stopped on one occasion. Hesitation occurred during a single moment. A wandering little girl passed through the clearing that the elves battled in. She gave them both happy looks like they were any of the merchants or other people she saw in town and continued on her way. After the girl passed the elves went back to battle and continued until their bodies dropped from the lack of the magic in their bodies able to replace food and water. When their corpses decayed their equipment was united by a single tree growing and pulling it all together with its large, growing roots.

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