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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Today's #flashfiction The Knight And Family

 “A closet full of clothes and nothing to wear.”
Lady Godiva


If you can dance to the beat can you dance from the beat?

The Knight And Family


         “We need to move out,” The knight said. He'd lost track of the amount of times he'd told her.
         The princess replied, “But he's the one who brought us together, and without my Dad how are we going to going to live in a castle without being someone's servant? We couldn't take him just anywhere! Or do you not want him to be with us.”
         The knight looked at his armor, and his sword next to it. He hadn't been adventuring in awhile. If he moved out he'd have reason to raid evil fortress, caves and lairs for wealth for his princess. Dungeons of all kinds. Like the old days. However now he worked mundane hunting jobs or cheap teaching jobs at the knight academy.
         “It's not him...it's being here, in this place.” The knight placed his hand upon the princess's in a chivalrous fashion. He learned that gesture in his knight's school when he squired.
          A loud thump shook the ground and a huge, green dragon fell down. “Howdy, howdy new bro and sis! So old Sir James is getting bored of my big ol' castle? How about I take him for a spin 'round the mountains?”

         The knight sighed. His princess looked oblivious as did the dragon. He knew how to fight beasts, though the dragon proved to civil to fight when he found him, but he didn't know how to fight other kinds of problems. Maybe while flying on the mountains with the dragon he'll find a way to reconcile a life of the mundane with this new family. Or maybe this adopted dragon could be a new adventuring partner? Fighting monsters involved the simple action of stabbing the thing with your blade. He couldn't stab anyone into agreeing with him. When he leaped onto the back of the dragon he decided to take adventures with others one step at a time.

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