AN: I hadn't done one of these in a while, and felt like the challenge of writing exactly 100 words...
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Prompt: 26 - Fear
Word count: 100
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He had thought he knew fear. Thought he was familiar with the thudding of a terrified heart; the surge of get-me-out-of-here adrenalin; the breathless tightness in one's chest and throat.
He'd thought he knew every facet of fear.
Until the day he returned to the dock in Cabeltown after running some errands in town to find her surrounded by brigands on The Pearl. Saw her stab one of them and get a sword in her own side for her efforts. Heard her surprised cry of pain.
He knew then that he'd been wrong. He'd never even been introduced to fear.