Weekend Writing Warriors: Snippet 106- Kendryk

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 Winter of the Wolf. At the end of Hammer of the Gods, Kendryk received a nasty letter from Teodora, telling him she’d had his whole family killed. He suspects she’s lying, but won’t feel good until he knows his family his safe. So he and Anton decide to go look for them.  They don’t get too far from Kendryk’s headquarters before their camp is attacked and set on fire.

“We’re surrounded,” Anton said, “we have to fight our way through.”

Kendryk pulled out a pistol, though he saw no one in the smoke and darkness. He urged his horse forward at a walk, following Anton, who now held a sword in one hand and a pistol in the other. Shadowy shapes moved through the smoke, and then someone shouted, “There he is! Two hundred Kroner if you can take the prince alive.”

A fog suddenly lifted when Kendryk realized they were talking about him. “Never,” he said through gritted teeth. He would never go back to being a prisoner. He loosened the dagger in his belt, vowing to use it on himself before he let them take him.

After spending four years in Teodora’s dungeon, you really can’t blame him!

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33 Comments on “Weekend Writing Warriors: Snippet 106- Kendryk

  1. I think he may be one of the few people with the guts to really kill himself, if it comes to that. Courage comes in many forms, though I hope he’s not forced to that choice. Great snippet!

  2. You know your day isn’t going well when you have to use a sentence like- We’re surrounded – we have to fight our way through.
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