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Creative Writing: Empire Island

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Lapping at coffee stains, he stood. Nimble and haughty, he was the flighty prince of this wooden land. The light from the window crowns his head, dust dancing in the rays about his horns and painting him ethereal white along his tawny pelt. But the light was fleeting, the sun yet resting its head on the cresting trees far beyond his reach. He looked to the north, to the tower silhouetted against the dying sun, his Mother’s domain. It was not lit. And perhaps, on any other day, he would have ignored this and gone about his business. He would have leapt over the felled pencil and run towards the paper fields, ready to rest his head on an eraser as his Mother began her midnight rein. Today was different, however. The dust had settled upon not only his shoulders, but around his heart, and the weight worried him.
So he ran. …show more content…

Past the porcelain mug that held stale, caffeinated nectar and the puddles it left in its wake. He ran. And as he ran, the sun sank along the orange sky. It was the distracting hue that caused him to trip, or so he told himself to shield his pride, over a mislaid thimble. Grace was torn from under his feet as he tumbled forward, into a sea of thread. Reds and blues tore at his limbs, purples catching on his magnificent horns. His heart screamed at him to stop, to turn back, but the sky was fading pink. He could not let his kingdom fall into darkness. Not when his Mother had given up the day to keep them from the dark. The thread tore at him, as needles left holes in his hooves, but he pushed forward. The sky was bleeding red. He fought and fought, writhing against the taught golden

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