Sharp Ends: Stories From the World of the First Law
“She was offered a flailing instant aloft to consider the situation. Not a good one at a brief assay, and the impending earth allowed no time for a longer. She did her best to roll with the fall – as she tried to do with most of her many misfortunes – but the ground soon uncurled her, gave her a fair roughing up and tossed her flopping into a patch of sun-shrivelled scrub.
Dust settled.
She stole a moment just to get some breath in. Then one to groan while the world stopped rolling. Then... another to shift gingerly an arm and a leg, waiting for that sick jolt of pain that meant something was broke and her miserable shadow of a life would soon be lost in the dusk. She would’ve welcomed it, if it meant she could stretch out and not have to run no more. But the pain didn’t come. Not outside of the usual compass, leastways. As far as her miserable shadow of a life went, she was still awaiting judgement.
Shy dragged herself up, scratched and scuffed, caked in dust and spitting out grit.MoreLess
Dust settled.
She stole a moment just to get some breath in. Then one to groan while the world stopped rolling. Then... another to shift gingerly an arm and a leg, waiting for that sick jolt of pain that meant something was broke and her miserable shadow of a life would soon be lost in the dusk. She would’ve welcomed it, if it meant she could stretch out and not have to run no more. But the pain didn’t come. Not outside of the usual compass, leastways. As far as her miserable shadow of a life went, she was still awaiting judgement.
Shy dragged herself up, scratched and scuffed, caked in dust and spitting out grit.MoreLess
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