Shatter
The Fortunate Few
Each vignette offers you a small window into the vastness of Amashik—an ambient worldbuilding experience that unveils the untold tales and mysteries of this enchanting realm.
“Grandpa, I’m cold.”
The anguish in the boy’s voice was enough to cause tears to well. Blinking, the elderly man replied, first with a gentle stroke of the boy’s hair, and then with what he’d hoped were comforting words.
“Rhitia oft fell to temperatures like these. Once the caravan stops we’ll light a fire and huddle close.”
“Rhitia? Where’s that?”
The man shuddered at the thought. His exodus began after the storms had raged nearly a fortnight. He’d been one of the fortunate few to board a ship before the world began to shatter.
“That was home.”
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Loving these shorts brother!
I like these short pieces you've been sharing. They're effective pieces of world-building.
Quick question/critique:
Did you intentionally swap out "shuddered" for "shuttered" to set up the intensity of the storms in the next sentence, or was that a typo?