All Is Aquiver

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16 September 2008

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Drabble Challenge #17 [Alternate]

Prompt: quiver

He reaches back and pulls out an arrow as his spirit shakes on the inside – just as the medicine man had said it would.

Careful! Now is when it counts!

In their shabby tent, his family awaits, famished and shivering with the need for warm rugs and clothing fashioned from quality leather.

His awareness travels into the sky with prayer.

His aim is true as the air shimmers around the projectile and his warrior’s shriek breaks the silence.

An agonizing pause, and the mighty beast tumbles to a quaking ground.

As does he, trembling knees upon a snow-clad earth, thankful.

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