Drabble STORY ARC #2: Seek and Avenge

Armored Warrior On the Hunt

Part of a ‘choose your own’ story — drabble edition.

This is a ‘choose your own’ fiction story, “drabble edition”. Each main part of the story (not including choices and blurb) should be a 100-word drabble. Find out how to contribute to the ongoing story here, or check the previous chapter: ‘A Discovery by the Riverbank’, or ‘To the Dark Forest’.

You pull out your new bow. Are you an experienced archer? No. But how hard can it be, right? Surely some slow fat deer will amble past.

You walk further into the trees. There’s a distant eerie howling. Wolves? Orcs? Uncertain. But with a suit of armor and a sword, you don’t feel afraid. Well… not very afraid.

After a few minutes, you decide that perhaps the armor clanking is scaring off prey. You settle into a thicket, and wait. Poised.

A rabbit runs past. Small, pointless… you let it go. Later, a hedgehog.

*Sigh.*

Finally, your eyes drift shut.

Continue…

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