#earth enduring

I'm responding to an open tag from @new-royston-cursebreakers! Check out his post here.

Rules: Find five lines based on the prompts, then change one prompt at the end for whomever does it next.

My prompts were:

A line said to an enemy:

“Might?” one of the other females said. Her tone was as sharp as a knife. “Your kind traveled so far for “might”?” “Yes, it would seem if your planet is ill, then your time has come to its end,” said the other in agreement, voice high and reedy. Hannah balked. They spoke so callously. She didn’t know what she had been expecting. “Please, there are so many people at risk—children.”

A line said with fondness:

“You’re a terrible dancer. You’re too stiff.” “I know,” Hannah gritted out between her teeth. “There is a reason I told you no. Now you have me out here looking like a fool.” “Dramatic, Hannah,” V chided, voice soft. “No one is looking at you.”

A line that is whispered:

“I hope to see home again,” Hannah whispered. “If I can’t reach anyone, I’ll be stuck here. They won’t come for me.” She knew this with certainty. A rescue mission for a soldier light years away would use too many resources and cost too much money.

A line that hurts:

“It is my fault,” V repeated, standing tall. Hannah hauled Abraham up under one arm while Stratton grabbed the other. She met V's eyes head-on. Her heart felt cold. It was not enough that he was willing to take the blame. Because truly, once trust was broken, any amount of scrabbling and pleading could not restore it. The relationship would never be the same. “You don’t deserve to be a martyr.”

A line that is shouted:

"Wait! No!" she shouted, voice muffled, as Abraham broke the seal and bolted upright. Icy fear ran down her spine as she braced herself to see her best friend suffocate to death in the merciless space air. Instead, his lanky body was already across the small room, working on freeing Hannah from her bed. Finally, the suction released, and she surged upwards, folding into his embrace. His tight grip back and his desperate iteration of her given name — Ha-Eun — was her only indication that he was more scared than she had ever seen him before.

I'll be tagging @em-dashes, @every-eye-evermore, @finchwrites along with an open tag. Your prompts are:

A line said to a loved one:

A line said with fondness:

A line that is whispered:

A line that hurts:

thank you to @saintedseraph! i'm tagging @interroblog, @ijustwritehonestly, @trixies-show, @italiangothicwriteblr, @meerawrites, @wintherlywords your words are: breathe, sunlight, grief, rain my words were: dark, light, dawn, and dusk! DARK

"After that, I didn’t dare cry. I squashed down all the messiest of my feelings and emotions and sequestered them away. It was not easy, but neither was the heartache. So, I kept them all in a safe, dark place within myself. It was dangerous to possess feelings, so I didn’t. I’ve come to believe that there is something dark, something inherently wrong, that lies just below the surface of my skin. It permeates the lining of my organs and chokes them out until they are cancerous, calcified relics of the little laughing girl I barely remember." - bean sidhe WIP

LIGHT

"It was quiet when they stepped outside. With its enormous green rings, the larger-than-life moon took up much of the sky. On the opposite horizon, the first tendrils of sunlight were peeking over. It cast the garden with strange pockets of both shadow and morning light. There was still a chill in the air. V was correct—it was a peaceful place to think and have the opportunity to soothe her fears." - Earth Enduring

DAWN

"In the dawn haze, his form looked more human than ever—more like her. Hannah pinned her focus to his furry, ridiculous ears and used them to ground herself. He might be different from her physically, but he still understood her human need for presence more than platitudes." - Earth Enduring

DUSK

Title: Earth Enduring Is it a series?: Will just be one and a sequel. Status: (Drafting/Editing/etc.) Editing book 1, drafting book 2 Genres: Scifi adventure & romance Themes: discovering worth & purpose, morally gray villians, survival, forbidden romance

Main Character(s): Hannah - Timid and apprehensive soldier trapped on an alien planet that is less than inviting V - brusque and rebellious alien Bone Reaper tasked with keeping Hannah safe

Rules: Pick a bunch of your WIPs and summarize them as badly as possible, then ask your followers to vote on which one they'd be most likely to read. Multiple/all/none options are completely optional.