FFM 2023 26: The Road to Freedom – Take X

~ WindySilver

No prompts used. This is a continuation to FFM 2023 24: The Road to Freedom – Take IX.

Bereth was… not dead. Probably. He was feeling far too awful to be dead. Probably dehydrated… in addition to every single one of his joints protesting both existing and being on the move. The humming became louder, creating a feeling of someone putting earmuffs over his entire mind. His consciousness slipped like he was on wet ice at each step and second, up and down.

A bit of light registered. It hurt so much that Bereth became more alert despite squeezing his eyes shut. He was lying on the weird horse… probably? He did not know.

The humming grew louder still, not entirely masking a hushed conversation nearby.

A touch on his head, soft words in his ear almost forced Bereth’s mind to go back down into the unconsciousness. He tried to fight it, but his mind wound up slipping again and crashing down.

He was probably not dead, but he could feel that he was dying. The ring was still with him, but it would not save him. It would not make any of this right, especially not when he was too weak to use it.

…Maybe he would not wake up again…

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N. WS. Jokela, more commonly known as WindySilver, is a Finnish programmer and a hobbyist artist fighting a war against procrastination on the losing side. When her free time is not taken up by things like reading, procrastination, video games, watching series or more procrastination, she mainly writes sci-fi fanfiction and original flash fiction of various genres. While she dabbles in a lot of things ranging from digital art to jewelry to plants to whatever catches her interest, writing is her persistent forte. You should not give her yet another crazy flash fiction challenge to take part in because she simply cannot say "no" to it.

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