The Writing on the Wall (Ch1)

I have finally finished typing up "The Writing on the Wall". So here, to celebrate (and completely un-corrected, so everything up to and including the summary is subject to change), is the first half of what came out as a two-chapter story.

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The Writing on the Wall

Chained and alone in the cells of the Communards, Raoul reaches into the past for a final act of defiance.

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Ch1: Imprisonment

Raoul choked on blackness, gulped again for air he could not find, and knew in some fast-shrinking core of awareness that this was the end. The battering waters, the iron tree, his own drowning struggles had all become — in one final mercy — very distant. He was twenty years old. He could not die...

Christine. A lightning-bolt of memory through the dark, in one last agonized convulsion. And then the flicker was swallowed, and went out.

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