Haunted House 27 - Turnabout

[aldersprig]

First: A story featuring a male keeper and a female Kept.
Previous: Unlikely Allies

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Mélanie caught her breath as the two horses provided the distraction she so badly needed. Bless these beasts. She spat out the Workings she needed as quietly as she had ever managed to speak and as quickly as she'd ever strung words together, the sounds of the two brutes shouting at the horses and the sounds of the jangling harness covering over not one but five Workings.

She leaned against the side of the horse nearer her, hoping that he wouldn’t get annoyed and push her off.  Her light-footed Working was starting to fail her. She had to get back into the wagon or be left behind. And her invisibility Working was probably in need of some touching up, too.

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Comments

[kelkyag]

I've little sense of the times and distances involved, except that Melanie reached them on foot in an evening. If she's lucky, the horses are speeding up because they're nearly home, or even turning into the yard.

[aldersprig]

*whispers* I don’t have much sense of the times/distances either. :-)

[kelkyag]

You're the author. Nobody's gonna know if you don't!

[thnidu]

The usual spelling of ['wo:] in its original meaning of telling an animal to slow down or stop is "whoa".

[aldersprig]

Clearly Anan, who is not literate, didn’t know how to spell it. *nods*

[sauergeek]

Yay horses helping out! I have to wonder what those Workings were. Some of them to mess with the bits, but I can't see that being all five. And if our two brutes decide to do something that derails the trap set, will Mélanie be able to pull off another set? Tune in next episode, when...