Drabble: 'Rope's End'

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100 words of unbetaed, end-of-CotBP drabble for the current prompt at blackpearlsails...



~ Rope's End ~

Choking, wide-eyed, scrabbling for purchase, for balance, for breath, he's only half aware of the surrounding tumult, the seconds stretching slow and harsh as the rough hemp tearing at his neck.

Then a thunk! and he's falling, standing, on solid ground. The sword's stuck fast, thanks to Will's trick, but Jack frees his wrists, frees the only other weapon to hand, and runs.

Should be some needle-witted saying about nooses turning to lifelines, he muses, but his friend's there, catching the tossed end, and as they begin to bowl over lobsterbacks only one maxim occurs: Time is of the essence.

~.~

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