Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-35898511-20190127005844/@comment-36855838-20190220035110

Not reading Jester's 'til I've finished, so I can't steal his ideas.

Edit: warning, language ---

The broadcast silenced, I compose myself, straightening my collar and tidying the couch.

The knock arrhythmic taps out once more, and so I bustle to the door.

Once set ajar the door has been, in walks johnny, with a grin.

"I've come to call on you," he says, he tips his cap, a golden fez.

''"Whatever for?" I puzzle out, hand on handgun, full of doubt.''

"I heard you've got a certain chain-"

"and so you've come to pick my brain?"

My steps retreat, two to the second.

He follows suit, the door ajar.

I back my way onto my lawn,

''and Johnny follows, we go on. . .''

"I see it, glinting in the light-"

"Come and take it, test your might!"

Johnny charges, I draw faster,

Bullet through the heartless bastard,

Not an insult, just the truth,

''His wife's a Lich. (She goes by 'Ruth')''

I make my way to city square,

(It won't be long he's laying there)

I take myself to the police.

"I do confess, please cuff me, officer."

Dumbfounded looks from both, a dark elf and a more average one.

"Ah, right."

I pull out the amulet.

"I understand I'm not allowed to have this, as it's illegal to possess one, but I only found out this afternoon from the radio."

They continue to stare, a piece of doughnut falls from the mouth of the shirtless male receptionist.

"I had wanted to keep it, as it was left to me by my parents, but I'm willing to part with it if that's the law."

I unclasp the chain and-

---

I wake up in a soft bed. ..

A shaft of sunlight stabs the gloom,

A dragon steps into the room

Her wings are tattered, like old leather

"Oh, these? Lost in stormy weather."

Her mind had plucked my thoughts from thin-air,

Alas, she continues standing there.

I see her badge, a brilliant gold,

and with her friend, in stalks the cold.

A yuki-onna, pale complexion,

offers a cacao confection-

"Are you alright?"

I'm pulled from my reverie, and take the square of chocolate from her open palm.

As I hold the cold chocolate in my mouth, waiting for it to melt, she breaks off another piece and playfully feeds it to the dragon, who wears far more pins on her uniform.

As the chocolate melts in my mouth, I feel as if the cold has subsided, though my breath still turns to fog in the air.

The Yuki-onna seats herself on the floor in the corner of the room, and wjatever the chocolate did, the heat the dragon is giving off has become nigh unbearable.

I just want to. ..

Leave. I want to leave, I think? What is this feeling? I don't know this feeling I don't know I-

A hand, quite firm, upon my shoulder.

A calming smile, I want to hold her.

I sate this need, because I must.

There is no love, if there's no trust.

(Fin.)