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[shes-some-other-where]

Disobedient dogs who try to run

Prompt: “You thought you could get away with this?”

Contains: failed escape (aftermath), prison, barbed wire, exposure (implied)

“You stupid bastard.” The chief overseer chuckled, gaze alight with burgeoning pleasure at the prospect of fresh, brutal punishment. “You thought you could get away with this? You? Really? You really thought you could escape?”

The prisoner writhed in his chains. Took a boot to his back. Fell still.

“String him up over there,” said the overseer, pointing. “Let’s learn what happens to disobedient dogs who try to run.”

A tall wooden pole, hung with metal chains and wreathed in barbed wire.

He screamed, skin torn open and shredded as he was slammed against the pole and chained in place.

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[shes-some-other-where]

“He would never hurt me.”

Prompt: Suspicious

Contains: implied/discussed partner/spousal abuse, (future) loveless marriage, angst, mention of branding

“He sounds…”

She met his eye then, waiting for him to finish his thought. His question. His implicit accusation.

“Unkind.”

She smiled, not hiding the sweep of her gaze over his collarbone, where the brand, the evidence of his crime, lay concealed beneath his shirt. “He would never hurt me,” she said evenly. “He respects his brother’s memory too much.”

“His brother’s memory,” he echoed. “Nobody else?”

She appeared to realize then what she’d said; her gaze wavered. “He’d never hurt me,” she repeated.

The fugitive let the conversation lapse. For everyone’s sake, he hoped what she said was true.

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