Melita
they should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive
of the women they burned alive
Maybe, she thought mulishly to herself, picturing Jack amidst all kinds of other adventures in the clouds – adding the image of gigantic spiderwebs hitting his face. With this obnoxious thought, she settled for putting her bow away, and angling back towards the cannons. “Don’t mind if I do,” she hummed, as if she’d been looking for a myriad of excuses to shoot at that damned obelisk, and now she had enough.
Sila and Fangorn managed quite well, and the gourd seemed to encourage Seven as well with his waving vines, grabbing at a few more and stuffing them briskly into his eerie, grinning mouth.
Meanwhile, the Honeybee readied one of her favorite weapons (a difficult thing, really, when she had so many), loading the metal and patting the armament faithfully. “Get ready,” she announced to anyone in the vicinity (as a warning).
And then there was the telltale boom as it fired and launched.
Sila and Fangorn managed quite well, and the gourd seemed to encourage Seven as well with his waving vines, grabbing at a few more and stuffing them briskly into his eerie, grinning mouth.
Meanwhile, the Honeybee readied one of her favorite weapons (a difficult thing, really, when she had so many), loading the metal and patting the armament faithfully. “Get ready,” she announced to anyone in the vicinity (as a warning).
And then there was the telltale boom as it fired and launched.
because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life
to bring a whole wildfire to life
