The girl looks down at the thrashing creature, its movements stilted, its eyes vacant in the dull dawn light.
"What kind of mutt are you if you can't even stand up by yourself?" She kicks the thing, and it swipes in her general direction. The girl snorts, seizes the sword from Garrett's hand, kneels, and drives the point straight through its head. Garrett flinches, a mixture of fear and awe of his companion.
"And that," she states, her voice matter-of-factly, "is how you use a sword." She repeats the process with the other one before plopping on the ground, the exertion suddenly visible on her flushed face. Garrett follows suit, scrunc
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HG OCT Round 3.1: A Badly Broken Code
Previously in the Capitol: [link]
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All things considered, reflects Leon, the evening could have gone better.
So can the night that follows, if he's going to be perfectly honest with himself, but his holding cell is clean and relatively quiet, and his standards are really kind of low as far as government prisons are concerned. Besides, there isn't a lot he can do about the situation now besides try to sleep.
No, it's the soirée that rankles at him like a sore. All right, it wasn't exactly a comedy of errors, and as things went he navigated the Capitol minefield relatively well, but the ones he did make were significant, and obvious, an
HG-OCT R3 1/4 - Looking Through the Looking Glass by PastellePirate, literature
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HG-OCT R3 1/4 - Looking Through the Looking Glass
Heat blazed in Rottie's flushed cheeks, hanging in the air, infecting the very atmosphere with the fire that roiled deep within. The cold, hard surface of the wall provided some relief from the smoldering heat as she pressed her sweat-soaked forehead against the concrete, a whimper falling from her chapped lips. Blood pounded in her ears, her heart racing as she writhed in her sleep, so deeply, irreversibly disturbed by her own dreams.
Nightmares swept her off her feet like an ill-intentioned knight, carrying her into a realm of hell, where the shadows leaped and snarled at her, where no light shone down from above. There were only the scr