Disclaimer: Dustfinger and the Inkheart Trilogy are the property of Cornelia Funke. I am not Cornelia Funke. But I i am /i her evil twin! Mwahaha! ahem Ok, not really. sigh
Prompt #5: Outsides
Books, he had discovered, were a lot like people. Their outsides rarely told you much about their insides. Like the book he held in his hands now, as he crouched in the moonlight beside the little girl's bed.
It's simple, unadorned, silvery-green cover gave no hint at what it contained. It seemed odd for a world such as this, that seemed to label everything.
He could just imagine one of their big, red labels plastered on the cover..
WARNING: This book contains darkness, evil, violence, injustice, all of your mistakes, your failures, your fears, your death--
He hated warning labels.
Author's Note: I am aware that, at the specific point in the story where I have set this drabble, he does not yet know of his death in the book. But he's speculating, and it seems a reasonable speculation.