vignettes

This week's prompt is:
cry

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

Cloak of Dragonfire

Cloak of Dragonfire by Jonathan Moeller

The continuing adventures of Nadia, building on the stories of before so spoilers ahead for the earlier works.

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the natural tendencies of mankind

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

Frederic Bastiat