Author: Aldebaran
Title: Consequence
Length: 100 words
Status: Complete
Date Written: March 23, 2008
Disclaimer: "Tin Man" and the characters associated with it belong to Imagiquest. This story was written for entertainment purposes only.
Author's Note: Written for the LJ Tinman100 drabble community challenge prompt number 7, "safe".
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Azkadellia peered from the witch's eyes, hiding carefully from that controlling mind. But she must risk seeing Ambrose. Had her plan worked?
The man lying there, emptied, sprawled in reeking straw, scarcely resembled her beloved friend. But he's alive, she thought. The witch wanted him dead, his threat ended. Azkadellia had nurtured the seed that torment was better…more pleasurable than simple death.
He stirred. She saw where the zipper's bloody metal teeth chewed through the matted mass of his hair.
She hadn't known it would result in this…horror.
Forgive me, Ambrose. I only wanted to keep you safe.