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[shes-some-other-where]

Half-lives in the dust

Prompt: Lost

Contains: forced labour, environmental whump, death mention

The Pits: a collection of vermin, the most despicable souls spat out from the depths of hell itself. Men long lost to the world, to the light, exiled for their crimes and never forgiven.

They lived half-lives in the dust. Beneath scorching sun. In torrents of rain. When sheets of ice coated the ground and made phantoms of their worthless, laboured breaths.

When one died, the rest picked up the slack, with neither time nor will to mourn. Every year buried more convicts, forgotten by all beyond the Pits. Every moment tasted of regret.

Out of spite, the prisoner survived.

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[shes-some-other-where]

“See what happens.”

Contains: prison/labour camp (implied), physical violence

“Talk back to me again, scum.” The chief overseer’s face twisted, a garish mask of scorn and hate contorting what might have been a passably handsome countenance into the grisly snarl of a bloodthirsty beast. “Try it. See what happens.”

He kept silent, watching the overseer’s eyes. They snapped and glinted, blazing with savage fury.

“Nothing more to say, huh?”

Without warning, the overseer swung his club, cracking it into his jaw. He fell, tasting the bitterness of blood on his tongue.

“You keep your mouth shut and your eyes down, rat, or next time, I won’t be so gentle.”

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