COQUETTE

Written on October 29, 2021 (♏︎)

Author's Notes: Written for Whumptober 2021 for prompt No. 29: All Work and No Play ("You’re still not dead?").

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Tenacity. Gaffgarion always admired a man who kept clawing himself away from a grave, even if it he got but a few inches of ground. There was a romance in the struggle: in playing the coquette just a little before death took you up in arms.

Now that he was batting death away from himself, she seemed far less charming. He told himself he could still retrieve his sword, that the boy might see sense, that the wound would hold its shape.

He told himself that—not having died yet—that death's chances in the matter ought be very poor.

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