This will be a collection of the Fablehaven works I am completing for Fictober 2020 (prompts from tumblr). I make no promises about how many of the prompts I will use. Any potential ones I write which contain spoilers for Dragonwatch 4 will be posted solely on tumblr under heavy tags and spoiler warnings; I'll upload them to this site beginning in November.
Fictober 2020 Day 1: No, come back!
Setting: after the events of Dragonwatch 2.
Her dreams that night were riddled with loss. Clouded with darkness, she chased after her brother and Bracken, who walked away with their backs turned toward her. As she raced in their direction, she passed others who similarly faced away from her, yet they stood eerily still.
It didn't matter whether the others were moving or not. All Kendra needed was a glance to know who they were.
Lena. Broadhoof. Neil. Rosa. Dougan. Laura. Coulter. Even Gavin and Torina, of all people, among others she had met in the past.
They were all dead.
Seth and Bracken continued to walk away from her, and despite how quickly she ran, Kendra simply couldn't keep up. Their gait was slow, even slower as time went on, yet the distance between her and them continued to increase. They were diminishing in size. Soon they would disappear from her sight entirely, and she would be left alone in the darkness with only the ghosts of her past to haunt her.
She couldn't lose those two. Not like this. Not without a fight. She pushed herself harder. Breathing became difficult. Her sides ached.
Bracken and Seth disappeared into the darkness.
The tears she had been holding back spilled out.
"No! Come back!" she cried.
No one came to comfort her.