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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Leap of Fools - A Short Story [#13]

Inspiration: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YQO56
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            "I'm going to do it," he shouted.
            "Don't do it," I warned him for the eight time.
            "I can make it," he proclaimed.
            "No you won't," I tried to stop him.
            "Here I go," he leapt from the stone bridge right onto the hilt of the giant statue's sword. By some miracle he stuck the landing and avoided injury. "Ha, told you I could make it."
            "Okay you made it," I relented, "Now how do you get down." He opened his mouth to say something, but the words never came. Instead he looked down to see that the platform he stood was well over a hundred feet above the ground. There was also no way he could jump back to the bridge. It was just high enough and just far enough away for the jump to be impossible. That height difference helped him reach the hilt of the giant statue's sword, but now it doomed him.
            "Don't worry I can figure this out," he assured as he scratched his chin in thought.
            "You do that," I sighed. As I grew bored of watching him wrack his brain my attention turned towards the statue's head, and today's original problem. I saw our dear friend Stephen still stranded up there. I don't know how he managed to get himself up there in the first place, but now I have two idiots trapped on this statue. If we're lucky, which is a big if, we'll make it out of here with only one or two broken bones each. Let's hope we haven't spent that luck already.
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Today's story was loosely inspired by an artwork by Kou Takano linked here.
Not much to say here. Just a small story that I had lying around and decided to tweak a little and upload. Look forward to a longer story next Tuesday.
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