Splash! Relief flooded over him as his sword entered the river.
It’d made him invincible. The world’s most powerful man. If only he could be called man, with his hollow eyes, gaunt skin and decrepit features. As the sword sunk, his vitality rose.
He was alive, again.
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That’s interesting: his vitality increases as the sword sinks. Kinda opposite of Arthur’s sword. Nice one
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Aye! 😀
The sword was a boon with a heavy price!
Thank You! 🙂
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Indeedy, as are most magical boons
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True that! 😀
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🙂
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Ooo, I like your word choices here. They give us the backstory without any real exposition. You also do a really great job illustrating the before and the after – why the loss of the sword matters.
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Thanks so much, Christine! 😀
It was a fun task minimizing the story into such a short piece!
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Nice! I like the contrast of losing a seemingly valuable object and the reveal of the benefit.
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Thanks so much! 😀
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You gain when you lose. Power has its price and I guess the narrator had just about enough. This rather makes a nod to the sword of Damocles.
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True that! 😀
The sword of Damocles has always fascinated me as a concept! 🙂
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A feature of myth and folktale, isn’t it? Something that sounds too good to be true, turns out to be just that.
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