Fate

Despite seeing nearly five hundred years on its dusty dais, the meticulously crafted copy of Allgerion’s Catechism—the prophecy within foretelling that the first and only child of the seventh son of Avangarde and the third daughter of Mah’reel would usher forth the salvation of their world—was in a remarkable state of preservation.

Since the day he was shoved from his mother’s womb and into this cruel world, Vicitrix of Avangarde, seventh son of a long line of men determined to sire as many sons as possible just to be disappointed at their inevitable shortcomings, wore the weight of the words before him like the yoke in the square outside the palace.

His wedding day drew near, two days past the death of the moon that illuminated his sleepless nights, and from there it would be his duty to save their world alongside that daughter who had not yet seen ten winters, who had never been beyond her own borders, who cried at the very sight of him.

As if a magi extracted the memory to be relived in within her crystal ball, Vicitrix saw within his mind the greatest of his sins as though it was happening again—her fiery red hair set against her emerald eyes focused on him as her body turned beneath his–but she was some tavern maiden whose name he never learned and whose child, for he had seen her swollen belly, he would never meet.

Yes, Allgerion’s Catechism was in a remarkable state of preservation, until the wine, stained green by poison, flooded the vellum that would later crumble when they discovered the body on what was to be his wedding day.

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A/N:

Normally in my writing exercises I focus on word count, but I found that translating to a more staccato cadence to my prose. Today’s self imposed challenge was to write as much as I could in only five sentences. I almost certainly screwed up some pesky grammar… guidelines somewhere. Enjoy anyway.

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