Title: A Simple Thing

Rating: G

Prompt: Numbers

Category: Up to 100 words

Word count: 71

Summery: It's the simple things you miss the most.

It's a simple thing: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and you're a soldier, a great warrior.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and you're no longer a soldier, no longer a great warrior.

'It was a simple thing,' he thought, looking down at his hands, his eyes focusing on the right, which would only ever form a half-hearted fist.

Such a simple thing.