Drabble: 'Worship' (W/E - G)

[dwgm]

Many thanks to hereswith for burning the midnight oil to look this over for me. 100 words of smitten Will at the beginning of CotBP, written for the current challenge at potc100...



~ Worship ~


Folded steel… gold filigree laid into the handle… perfectly balanced…

And then she had come down the stairs. Tall and slender, a vision in satin and lace… the goddess of his idolatry.

She had dreamed of him. Asked him again, before her father, to use her Christian name – and her displeasure at his refusal to do so had nearly broken him.

That moment of pique was fitting in one so high-spirited. Surely she would understand, when she had considered.

He had no right. He was not of the same cloth. He was not worthy of one who was perfection itself.


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Comments

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Re: Elizabeth and the sword - yes! I'd thought of that myself. There are at least another couple of drabbles that could be written, I think. Thank you very much for the feedback!