Awaiting the Court of the Damned - a wee bit of micro fiction

 Awaiting the Court of the Damned

By Jonathan Traynor

 Her hand reached to the gravestone. Just that brief touch brought an unbidden smile.

 The dead lights of the cemetery drew her ravens. They cawed at the illumination.

She drew back from the grave marker, inspecting her hand, still stained scarlet from his blood.

Her ravens had ripped his eyes out. With a scream of glory her black blade had cut his heart from his ribs. 

Tomorrow evening… she would desecrate his body and laugh.

Consequences? That was for tomorrow’s court of the damned. She looked forward to its judgement.

 

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