Weekend Writing Warriors: Snippet 100- Elektra

wewriwa2It’s time for Weekend Writing Warriors! Every Sunday, a bunch of writers post 8-10-sentence snippets from their WIPs on their blogs. There’s a lot of reading, commenting and great writing. Click on the link to see the full list.

From Hammer of the Gods: Some time has passed since last week’s snippet, and Teodora’s envoy Livilla has just taken General Mattila’s army out from under her. Teodora’s daughter Elektra has been staying with Mattila since her escape from and betrayal of Braeden. Now Livilla asks Elektra to come back to the capital with her. Edited from the published version.

Elektra hesitated. She didn’t want to stay with Mattila a moment longer, but didn’t want to return to her old life either.

She glanced at Mattila; hatred burned in her eyes. It was likely all for her mother, but it wasn’t wise to stay and find out. She edged along the wall until she was out of Mattila’s reach, and ran to Livilla and the shelter of the guards.

“Stupid girl,” Mattila spat, while Elektra cowered into Livilla’s arms. “This old hag and your mother will never let you do anything worthwhile. Don’t let them turn you into their creature; you can do so much more.”

Elektra felt tears welling up, wondering how the general understood her greatest fear, but realized she wouldn’t stay. She’d suffered for her mother’s actions before, and didn’t want to endure that again.

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44 Comments on “Weekend Writing Warriors: Snippet 100- Elektra

  1. Poor Elektra, the choice of a rock and a hard place would be easy compared to this one.
    There is another quote which could apply: The enemy of my enemy is my friend…
    Thank you for sharing, Christina.

  2. That’s a tough choice, especially since she can’t quite know how either staying or going will turn out. But I think she made the only decision she could, in the end.

  3. Oh, poor Elektra! I hope she can devise her own way out. With how strong and crafty her mother seems I hope some of it has rubbed off on Elektra.

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