10 sentence stories, At the Docks
Sep. 15th, 2019 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
princeofdoomThere had been reports of some beast prowling about the harbor at night. Many thought it was a large, feral dog. But of the few eyewitnesses left alive, they all swore it was some kind of huge mountain cat. How a wildcat so large could get into the city, and why, wasn’t yet known.
Extra patrols were sent out to look for the creature after sunset, since whatever it was, it never struck while it was light out. Near the end of the hour of the boar, there was a yell, and many of the citizen patrols and a few samurai went to investigate.
They found one of the younger citizen patrols near the docks, the one who had yelled. He was shaking, staring at some crates and claimed he had seen a monster just as it hid among them.
One of the lower ranked samurai turned to the one heading the search to see if they should search the crates, and stifled his own shout. The lead samurai lay dead, head at an odd angle and deep tooth marks through his neck.
Extra patrols were sent out to look for the creature after sunset, since whatever it was, it never struck while it was light out. Near the end of the hour of the boar, there was a yell, and many of the citizen patrols and a few samurai went to investigate.
They found one of the younger citizen patrols near the docks, the one who had yelled. He was shaking, staring at some crates and claimed he had seen a monster just as it hid among them.
One of the lower ranked samurai turned to the one heading the search to see if they should search the crates, and stifled his own shout. The lead samurai lay dead, head at an odd angle and deep tooth marks through his neck.
