Her fingers are dressed in weathered rings.
Each one of them reminds her of her biggest ordeals. Nine rings for nine horrors. As she enters the cave, she looks at her empty finger. The last ring will find its place today.
After she’s slain the last demon…
Prompt:
Yeahwrite #416 Microprose Challenge
The Dark Netizen 
Nicely done with the plot and the use of the sentence. Reminds me of Avengers Infinity War
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Could be the start of a really cool fantasy novel. I would like to read more.😀
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This sounds like the blurb on the back of a fantasy book (which I would totally read). I would’ve loved for there to be more of a resolution than a cliffhanger – show her holding the demon’s head by one horn, for example.
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Thanks so much! 😀
I agree, even I do like resolutions, but sometimes cliffhangers just end up being fun! 😉
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I like how this alludes to a much larger story while being neat and complete on its own.
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Thanks so much, Jen! 😀
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It’s interesting that the way it’s worded, I’m not sure if the demon is a literal demon or a metaphorical one. I don’t know if you meant to make it ambiguous or not.
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I was going exactly for that, Katie!
I am so happy you read it as I intended! 😀
The demons do allude to major challenges she has faced which may or may not have been physical demons! 😉
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9 rings to rule them all after she kicks all their butts. 😉 Though I had a thought that the trials of earning the rings might be more spiritual mental rather than acutal beasts. Either way works.
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The trials were taxing in all ways for sure! 😉
Barely scraped through a few of them..
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Like Christine, I read this as a teaser for a much longer story! I want to know about the ordeals now, and how she overcame them. I wanted the rings to be both literal and metaphorical–a physical marker of the trials she’s overcome. The metaphors you’ve used work very nicely.
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