“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
Alright, I confess-this ran a little bit over an hour (I started early). I…got a little carried away.
“Oh, sir, thank you,
thank you for saving me from those awful men!”
Lillie
very nearly winced to hear the words even as they came out of her
mouth. That had to be
laying it on too thick. If she’d done any acting that bad back in her
brief sojourn into college theatre, her own classmates would have
dragged her off the stage. But the man in the mask and goggles didn’t
seem to notice. Supervillains generally didn’t, she’d found; it was
like you weren’t speaking their language if you didn’t ham it up as
much as possible.
“Save you? My dear, I’m afraid you
misunderstand the situation.” The man in the mask chuckled darkly.
His smug declarations could have benefited from a deeper voice and
probably a British accent, but he actually wasn’t doing too badly
with a slight Midwestern drawl, and Lillie had to admit, he did have a pretty good dark chuckle.
Not the best she’d heard, but better than she would have expected for
essentially an amateur.
it looks like an ancient rune activating its magic
Wouldn’t that be fantastic though? A cyberpunk story that deals with ancient magic that HAD gotten out but- ah- we were smart- we sealed it better. We put it in a CD. CD’s are outdated- nobody could ever release the monster.
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