For "The 100 Word Drabble Challenge (With Prompts)" from Rosa at TRLt.A Sword for a Leaf
The sword lay on the ground beside the small oak framed bed.
It was closer than Aram wanted to be to a sword and yet he couldn't sleep for the desire to jump from underneath the blankets and grab the forbidden steel just to have it in his hands. The blade lying on the ground was the reason he had lost his family. He half hated himself for ever touching it this morning. He hated himself more for not having it when the Trollocs had come.
The price of the Way of the Leaf was more than he could bear.
