Thursday, November 1, 2012

Revenge of Prince Poas



DAMSEL
Chapter 20, Revenge of Prince Poas


Prince Poas passed his fingers through the smoke of the man he loved.

“How are you, today?”

This day, on any day… that you are gone. And you will not speak to me.

The advisors of Poas were there as well, smoking. They were discussing the battle a night ago. The time for exulting the Prince on his first brave kill… “I vow it will be my last, also!” Poas had shrieked afterward.

No, no, no, hush, shhh… it is done. It needed to be done. And, the warlord’s body was laid out somewhere in the desert.

Now, Poas passed his hand through the smoke again. Beneath that, a bud of flame. And beneath that, a dull lantern.

They whispered about him more deeply.

“A man who is a warrior is not to act like this,”