#Gotta do another wip man cannot keep doing Interwoven

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Writemas Day Eleven!

yay more Kaiden suffering :>

a shortie, but a goodie!

as always, the prompts for today !

and the ones I picked:

Drowning in loneliness

The shaking in her limbs was loud. She could hear her bones rattling, the nerves crawling under skin, and it drove her beyond the brink of madness.

The graze of a blade

Nightmare

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Under a ledge she hid, trembling in fear like a leaf. Her eyes darted from left to right, looking for someone. The one who caused her to shiver so.

The shaking in her limbs was loud. She needed to stay quiet. Why couldn’t she stay quiet?

She could hear her bones rattling, the nerves crawling under her skin, and it drove her beyond the brink of madness.

Then, the lights shut off. Were they ever there…? It didn’t matter, she realized. She wasn’t silent. She was careless, caution-less, worthless. And it would be her downfall.

Why did she tremble so? This wasn’t typical of her. She was a knight, one of the best in the kingdom. Even if she no longer bore that title, she’d still never lost a one on one fight. Why was she so scared?

The graze of a blade jolted her from her thoughts, sharp yet gentle. It trailed along her arm, snaking upward all the way to her jugular. All the while, she did not stop shaking, nor moved to defend herself. She was stuck in place, a victim to this… entity.

Then, the voice came, disjointed, and it petrified her even more.

“Kaiden…” Fresh fear sped down her spine, making her shiver more. The blade—or was it a finger?—cut a sliver into her neck, letting gold blood trickle onto her tunic.

‘This is it,’ she thought. ‘I am dead.’

Then the voice screeched in triumph, and in the blade went.

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Kaiden woke up with a start, heart pounding like she’d ran for hours. Her bedsheets were sticky with sweat, and her face was wet with tears. Her eyes darted from left to right, pressing a hand to the spot where the knife cut her throat. It came away dry, save for the sweat.

“…A nightmare,” she sighed, to no one in particular. There was no one here. No one to hurt her, no one to comfort her.

Loneliness was a normal feeling for Kaiden at this point, but she couldn’t help but feel herself drowning in the stuff, especially after nightmares and panics like these. With another sigh, she flopped back onto her lumpy inn bed—‘gotta get my money’s worth,’—and forced her eyes shut, ignoring the tremors that still shook her body.

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me when I add nightmare horror ‼️😌🤝‼️✨⭐️💥

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