The Wolf's Game
For the first time in a very long time, the Game doesn’t feel predictable.
At the end of the hall, I pause, hand on the cold iron of a window frame, watching the courtyard below. She’s talking to one of the guards now, waving her hand in sharp gestures. She’s impatient. She moves like a fighter, measured, deliberate. She’s not trembling. She’s calculating.
A new player in an old story.
I should turn away, let the machinery run its course. But instead, I whisper to the empty room, “Try not to die too quickly, Moonfire.”