This is one of the stories from my “365 Days of Shorts” project. I’m not going to be posting them in any particular order (hence starting with #21). Since I wound up really liking the white-haired character in this, I wrote a follow-up to this story that I’ll be posting at a later date. Edit: Follow-up now posted.
Length: 1,151 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#4: “Up already?”
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