Assorted Flash Fiction Writings #2
Copyright© 2024 by Chaon
All the Time in the World
Writing prompt: The king is determined to live forever. Therefore, as his court mage, he has tasked you with pursuing this endeavour. You know very well how eternal life could be achieved, but you do not believe that the king deserves it.
In all your long life, you have known that someone would demand you to do this for them. You have spent so long refining the spell and making sure it was effective and safe and as much as you wanted the news of it to stay hidden, living for 437 years so far sort of blew that secret out of the water.
So here you are, in front of the King of Haphent and he has just announced that you will cast the spell of immortality on him like you have done on yourself. Hey, if you create immortality, why not cast it on yourself first?
So you have no choice but to do this. The king is not someone you can just ignore and since there are all these people with large pointy and blunt object all around the room, you are sort of being encouraged to do it.
As you finish looking around at all the guards and the courtiers and nobles in the throne room, you look back at the king and make your decision.
“Very well. I will make you immortal King Stroud. You leave me no choice as you hold the lives of so many over my head. It will not take long and then you will be immortal.”
The king smiles at this announcement and his nobles all stir as they realise that they will soon have an immortal king to rule over them. Soon they will see just what the king will be as an immortal.
The magic isn’t really all that hard to do which is why so many never created it before you did. They thought that such magic should have convoluted and complicated magic circles and chants that went on for minutes and you had to have multitudes of rare and expensive components. Most practitioners who were looking for it spent all their lives just trying to collect the components they thought they needed instead of realising it was all so simple and uncomplicated.
But casting it on a king like this, you knew you were still in trouble even if you cast the spell, so you were making sure you were protected and the people of the villages being held hostage were as well.
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