vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
marble 🏛️

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.

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[marycatelli]

She nodded, and directed them all onto the cart. She put her hands to it and hoped no one saw her face. It did weigh more than when Mafeo moved it, but the distance was so much shorter than it would more than counterbalance it, even if she were no more skilled than he was.
And she was better, having mastered more.
She cast the spell.
She felt the marble floor underfoot.
She let her breath out and stepped away -- tired, but not so much that it would show. The guardsmen already piled out, and Helena leapt down to begin her spellwork.
"What is the meaning of this?" bellowed the -- Lord Mayor himself.
She turned to face him. "Did you not come to the king for justice?" she said frostily. "Did you think that he would stint on it?"
"Got it!" shouted Helena, looking up from the bowl.