“I am.” I looked into Ancelogon’s irises, as gleaming bronze as her finely-scaled wings and long, sinuous neck. No light would ever warm those stones, they had come for the Clockwork Queen. Sunlight splashed across us, but where the corruption had stained the stones black, the warmth of the afternoon sun failed, just as my courage had failed. Somewhere below, my halberd lay in the smoking wreck of the battle. The dragon and I sat on the battlements where I had watched as Angelegon and the rest of the dragon-flight threw down our foes two days before. But you, knight, are more foolissh than mosst.” “Mortalss,” Ancelegon hissed in the long, whistling way of dragons, “are foolss. This month’s winning story was by Scott Hamilton, with “Keeper of the Clockwork Queen”. The story’s theme must be regret and/or contain a MC who tries to redeem themselves. Do they want to correct it? Is it even possible? Everybody should have the chance to redeem themselves, but this is not a fairy tale – or is it?ġ. Your main character (MC) did something, planned or by accident, and it went terribly wrong.
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