Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-28718853-20200203024713/@comment-44464716-20200203133223

I had been looking forward to getting home to my Dhampir wife, and a few bugs are not going to stop me. I draw my sword (an actual sword, not that), and I tell the vamp mosquitos, "In case you can't smell it, I'm married, and my wife and I fight real vampires for a living. You are nothing."

That gets most of them to back off. A few infuriated ones come at me, but a few quick parries and cuts drive them off. I take a couple steps to walk away, but then I notice the other swarm is still coming this way, and they show no signs of backing off or going around. All I can say is, "...Drat."

I immediately run along the path. However, some of the swarm notices me and gives chase. Inevitably, a few catch up to me, and I swat them aside before continuing. I manage to get near the end of the forest part of the trail with little more than a small cut on my coat. But then, the rest of the swarm emerges at the other end of the trail. Looking back, I see that I'm still being pursued. I'm completely surrounded. A small tear runs down my eye as I look at the ring my wife crafted for me using her own energy.

"I'm sorry, dear. Things don't look good. …But I'm not going to let them catch me..." I ready my sword in a guard position, and I wrap my coat around my sleeve for extra defence and to conceal my strikes. The rest is a blur of metal, coat and claws...

A bit later in the day, my wife hears the door open. I walk inside; my coat's completely torn, my sword is bent, there's a piece of wing impaled on the sword, and my clothes have more cuts and pieces missing than the training dummy we threw out last week.

"Honey, what happened to you?" She asks me.

I just drop my sword and ruined coat at my feet, gently hold her face in my hands, and I kiss her. I'm just so happy to be alive, and to be able to see my wife and hold her again. As I keep my lips on hers, my wife immediately understands. She takes off my ruined clothes, then she removes her clothes, and we proceed to the bedroom and make love for the next several hours to celebrate my return home...