Today's #microPrompt: QUAINT
Reply with:
+ A story that contains the prompt word (derivations and tense changes ok), or
+ An excerpt from your current WIP that contains the prompt word.
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space opera dream sequence snippet time!
"It was the shop of Khama, Sofia’s mother. Their family had been preparing and selling natural remedies and rare spices for generations. The little store was a quaint thing in the age of advanced pharmaceuticals and with the Miyozan culinary arts demonstrating methods not unlike sciences, but it also manifested the flavor of tradition blending with high-tech processes that a significant number of their people cherished so much."
"You're asking for a //boon//?" Molly asked, one eyebrow arched. "That's positively quaint. Fine. I'll help, but you will owe me... Let's say a literal pound of flesh. It doesn't have to be yours, but if I have to force the issue it will be repossessed," the Raven Duchess chuckled, then added, "with interest."
C. R. Taxon
Helyna
Bramble (sidhe/her/it)
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