Desert, Bus, Neverending

I'm not feeling great but I wanted to beat some monsters in 4thwords so I asked for some prompts on Mastodon. 

@DialMforMara prompted
Write about a desert. Or a bus. Or both.
which led me to finally look up desert bus.  I'm not sure about this ficlet, but it's something, all right.

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Slave, Auction, House, Surprise

(With no auction and no house, oops)

Wyste prompted me:
a slave auction house, a surprise.
and I'm going to blame the part where I'm sick* for the part where I missed like the auction and really the house. 

* I'm not really sick.  I'm having a predictable adverse reaction to a medication that will be over by tomorrow morning.  But I feel sick.  Peh. 

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Arie had been trudging for days.  His feet were bleeding, he was fairly sure, and his shoulders and neck were sunburnt.  

The raiders had caught five of them in a trap that he felt stupid just thinking about, the sort of ridiculous thing that Wile E. Coyote would have turned his nose up at, but they’d been tired, they’d just finished fighting off something Arie was pretty sure was a wyvern, and-

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Sketch of Cartwright’s House – for Patreon

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Mirrored from Alder's Grove Fiction.

Addergoole: A Ghost Story - Chapter 55: Abednego

Chapter 55: Abednego
by Lyn Thorne-Alder

Thursday, March 22, 2001

The weirdest thing, Abednego thought, was that he would run into an order he didn’t remember having anymore.  He’d look up to say something and remember oh, yeah.  That was only lifted for Joff.  I can’t speak to Eris still.  Or he’d think about going to the bathroom and stop, not because there was an order, but because his entire body clenched at the idea of doing that without permission.

And weirder was the way Rafe handled it.  If he said something in private, Rafe acted surprised.  If he said something in public, Rafe acted horrified and embarrassed and - scared, he acted scared.

Abednego had no idea what was going on, but he could make the asshole who Owned him scared.   He thought that was pretty cool, on some level.

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