The Yarn Collection

by CrackinAndProudOfIt

My responses to Virodeil's "100 Prompts." These drabbles consist of a wide variety of genres and characters, though I've been told they're primarily angsty. ; Finally COMPLETE! Thank you, my encouragers!

36. Sunrise

36. Sunrise

We only have to make it until dawn. We only have to make it until dawn.

I repeated the mantra again and again in my mind, knowing it to be true but failing to see how we would ever be able to hold out until the Orcs were weakened by the sun's coming. In the dead of winter, when one has been besieged for ten nights in a row, the darkness seems to last forever as the inevitable battle wears on.

The battle did wear on, though, slowly but surely. Once, the Orcs nearly took the lower level of the citadel; once we vanquished their attempt. Hours later, I found myself defending the very gates, for the glamhoth had been driven back, though we were hard put to it. Even now, they appeared to be gaining ground. Unintentionally, I glanced up at the sky; I smiled. It was grey, and to the east the horizon blushed pink with the hope of the coming dawn.