Daily writing prompts based around a weekly theme.
Prompt - Cat and mouse
This week's theme is cat-related idioms, and today's prompt is cat and mouse.
You can interpret the prompt in any way you wish! Post your work in the comments if you'd like to share.




Like The Stone
Form: drabble
Source: King of Bones
There they were. Riders from Vannes, all unwitting, come to throw their lives away upon his lord and master's altar ...
In the womb of the earth, Geoskia felt the pounding of hooves, the beating of the great hearts, and gathered blighted power close to strike the messengers down. The earth-energies fought him, twisted in his mind's grasp, and cold bitter anger blossomed briefly before he locked it down.
No. Silence.
He must strike in silence, be death in silence.
Do not think, do not question. The Shining One is all, and the Vannei must die.
But, the earth wailed, and ...
I don't know the source material, but this is very beautifully-written.
Thank ye very kindly :3