Weekend Writing Warriors: March 22, 2015

Weekend Writing Warriors is a weekly bloghop. Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, to go live between noon, Saturday, and 9:00 AM Sunday EST. Then we visit each other and read, comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good. 
                 Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants do both, can be found HERE   

This is Chapter 2 from my SFR WIP, ATNS, called "The Hunter"  where we're introduced to the male main character, Kuylrh--second in line to the throne in the Rialtan Empire.  They're preparing for a hunt on a remote world called Tazulta. He's in concealment, waiting for the approaching animals and he can't keep his thoughts on the hunt.
Abraxum is his personal guard assigned to him at birth.

Last week's 8 ended with this:
"Too soon he’d be forced to take a mate and do his duty for the throne. Celebration my ass ." 

We pick up from there:

" He swallowed the bitterness of failure--which wasn’t something he had much experience with. And now he’d be publicly outed when forced to return to Rialt and give account of his search, and worse, its lack of fruition.

  An unstoppable tell of his growing frustration, he worked his jaw back and forth while his mind replayed Abraxum’s words from the night before. That he’d been acting little more than a pouting manchild.  And then, reminding him that in all fairness to his grandparents, they had given him an entire year to find his woman.

As if any length of time would make a difference when seeking out what clearly does not exist. He may as well have been tasked with finding a fangordemon or a hopsaloose, or any of the myriad fancied creatures in children’s tales."

 

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