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This is the End... Revisited!

Valkyrie

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We're back after a brief hiatus while the Poetry Anthology and Comicality Tribute were featured.  If you haven't had a chance to check them out, please do so! 

 

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@Aditus and I absolutely love everyone's enthusiasm for the new twists on the prompt blog.  Since we had so much participation the last time, we're going to put some limits in place to make the resulting story more manageable for us.  

The idea is to write a story backwards.  I will provide the ending, and you will provide the rest of the story in the comment section.  Please limit comments to two or three sentences (four, if you absolutely must) so that the next commenter can play off your comment.  You may comment more than once, but please do so in response to someone else's comment. In two weeks, I will compile the responses into a cohesive story and post it as @The Prompter, with credit to all participants.  

The fun thing about prompts is that they speak to each one of us differently.  If this prompt is speaking to you, and you would rather write your own story instead of participating in the group exercise, then I would encourage you to post it in your own prompt collection and paste the link in the comment section here so everyone can enjoy your take on it.  

Here is the ending:

His hands trembled on X's shoulders as he looked into their soulful eyes.  The world was full of possibilities, as his heart brimmed with pride.

Feel free to name X!  Now, start writing!  I can't wait to see how the story unfolds :) 

 

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Bill W

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It had been a long hard conflict along the border, and there had been many casualties along the way, so Honshee was looking forward to rebuilding his life, and the lives of his family, as he reached out to touch Xingshu.  

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Both of them were tired, and needed rest.  There was an inn up ahead, but the food was said to be mediocre and of little variety.

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The town they had lived in had been totally destroyed, but they'd been hiding out in a cave, which is the only reason they'd survived.  When they emerged from the cave, they looked around and all they saw was death and destruction, which made it infeasible to remain there, so they decided to flee to an area unaffected by the conflict.  

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Honshee said, "Let's see if the inn is in shape to feed us, and then we should probably move on.  But we need to scout carefully and see if more enemy fighters are there, first."  

"I agree," Xingshu replied.  

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Xingshu leaned against one of the few undamaged trees near the road, panting.  "I'm not sure how much longer I can continue."  His side throbbed from his injury.  "Is that a light ahead?  Maybe it's the inn that traveler told us about." 

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Honshee and Xingshu had been hiding out in the cave for so long that they had run out of food, so they came out to find more, but that turned out to be a huge mistakes.  Shortly after they emerged from the cave, one of the warriors fighting along border thought they were invaders attacking them from the rear, so he charged them with the knife that he'd been using to gut a rat for cooking.  Unfortunately, he stabbed Xingshu before discovering that he wasn't an enemy combatant.  Regretably, the wound was left untreated, since no medical supplies could be found. 

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Honshee squinted at the lighting ahead.  "I think that is the inn.  Let's go a bit closer."

As they slowly walked forward, it become clear that it was the inn.  "Perhaps they have something which could dress the wound," Honshee mused.

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