I’m doing strict 100-word drabbles for whumptober, in an attempt to try to curb the growing wordiness and try to boil stories down to the bare essentials. Prompts 1-16 is a Rayla-pov continuous story, prompts 17-31 a separate Callum-pov
And because I didn’t think I’d made this hard enough for myself, I tried to write it non-fandom-specific, that is, scrubbed of all proper nouns, since drabbles are already low-context. My thinking was to make them more easily readable regardless of fandom, or use as prompts in themselves. They’ll all be posted simultaneously on Ao3, link at the end.
Her cold fingers slip against the taut string of the snare.
She blinks at the treetops, at the world above her, white with softly falling snow, swimmy and blurry and alight with pain.
She squirms at the world under her, hard and freezing and underwear-soaking, not letting her stay down like she wants to.
The fumbling hand she raises to her face to prompts fast regret.
Other hand then, can’t be worse.
It’s tangled in broken string.
Her quest is a different bind.
She pushes, and it takes.