The
head which had eclipsed the sun was roaring.
Stiff-angled
fingers wrenched me as hard-spittled fury shouted of broke promises then raised
me high to dangle over the dirty midden-wash ditch of debris from the
half-demolished forge.
I’d
time to wonder whether ‘twould be best to die from being dashed upon
swarf-dusted shards of discard metal or drowned, weed-draggled and
half-dressed.
Speedwell-eyes
had turned to saffron as he scrambled to his knees then fled, caring not he
left both me and horse behind.
His
lack of chivalry and the death of my romantic dreams, laughter-doubled Gabriel,
who safely dropped me.
This
is part 36 of 'The blacksmith's wife'. The whole is a prompt-led
serial which began on the Friday Prediction, in March and continued, one hundred words at a
time, for forty-one episodes. One of my aims in this 100 days project
is to complete the illustrations for each episode and publish the tale
in book form. The story can be read in its entirety here.
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