vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
tempt 🍩

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]

Ava glanced at the fire, and away, and back, and said, "I have to learn to study even when it's difficult!"
"A wise and prudent step, Ava," said Edur.
All of the children took to their books. Even Stephan glanced over only once or twice.
"I should study," said Honor.

[marycatelli]

"There is no way to trap them. We must lure them into our grasp." Karl grimaced. "And into staying in it. They are dangerous."
"They could prove useful," said Florangela. "They are powerful, and the fight with the necromancers cost us many. At least, we don't want to fight them."

[marycatelli]

Elisanna's breath gusted out. That would not require her to buy things.
Do not be a fool, she told herself. She could go without for a day, and buy things to sew with. If there was a point. "I will go and see if there is somewhere to sell them."

[marycatelli]

Spell after spell, all written by her. Each one jogged her memory. She would need some practice.
On the last page, there was, still in her neatest hand, a spell of the Great Dream. To trap people in an area and make them dream that time passed and passed, in less than an hour.
She stared at it for a long minute. Then, her heart hammering, she slapped shut the book and closed her eyes. She had no desire to ever cast such a spell.
But.
What else did she have to protect herself, and her family, and their lands? What if the dream princes had only acted as princes would, in times to come?
She stood, holding the book. The other spells she would use as needed, but she could not see using that one. With care, she put the book away, and then she blew out the candle.