
Aalen’s story: previous episode
Prelude
Aalen and Ashalla were hiding on an eminence looking down on the soldiers in the distance. Aalen’s wolf Vilja lay between them.
“Last year there was a drought and game was scarce. These soldiers came to our village demanding food. When we refused because we needed our food stocks for the winter they began killing all the hunters until we acquiesced. I came back to find my brothers had been killed. I painted my arrows black and started hunting them down.” Ashalla said.
Aalen looked down at the army. Once they set up camp, that’s when they would attack.
Joanne Fisher
This was written with the prompt eminence provided by Carrot Ranch’s March 28 Flash Fiction Challenge.
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I liked this flash because it both furthered the story and could be standalone.
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Yeh I tried to make it standalone.
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Excellent work, then!
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I’m glad it worked 🙂
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Excellent indeed. Nice build up. The names are not typical are they indegenous to older people of newsealand.
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No. They’re fantasy names.
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Vilja is Scandanavian (meaning ‘warrior’) and Aalen is sort of Scandanavian too. Ashalla comes from the fantasy role playing game world Glorantha, but it’s origins from that I don’t know, possibly Scandanavian too or Celtic.
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Noted.
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Epic, loving this series. And so sorry for what happened in your lovely city, the world is going crazy.
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Thanks ❤
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Retribution, the mark of a true human.
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Joanne, I appreciate how seamlessly you carry this story forward from prompt to prompt. It seems so natural they would be on an eminence overlooking the soldiers’ camp.
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Vengeance is mine, spake Athalla, as she lets her black tinged arrow fly.. Wonderful writing!
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