Childhood (drabble)

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Childhood
Timeline: republican year 228
kingdoms year 7

early summer
Location: Thorn Republic
Main Characters: Team 95
Major Characters: n/a
Minor Characters: n/a
Wordcount: 100 words

Text

This was childhood: a tiny girl with ice-blonde hair curling one hand around her chosen protector's arm, which belonged to another little girl. Those who gathered around them—lightning burning over closed fists, oxygen shivering in and out of gasping lungs, spiking agonies of other's thoughts, and pain at the energy sealed shut and lanced open within them because control was not yet theirs. They were small, they were children, and their leader was among the youngest of them all.

They paired off, wound hands together as they slept fitfully in military beds, finding comfort that they were not alone.

Versified

  1. This was childhood: a tiny girl with ice-blonde hair curling one hand around her chosen protector's arm, which belonged to another little girl. Those who gathered around them—lightning burning over closed fists, oxygen shivering in and out of gasping lungs, spiking agonies of other's thoughts, and pain at the energy sealed shut and lanced open within them because control was not yet theirs. They were small, they were children, and their leader was among the youngest of them all.
  2. They paired off, wound hands together as they slept fitfully in military beds, finding comfort that they were not alone.