Knives in the Dark

A/N - This is an entry for the OSA Drabble challenge #9 - Morning after Last Night. I decided, since technically there is nothing in the challenge premise to say that this subject has to involve romance / sex, to do something a bit different. Hopefully it still falls within the title given for the challenge.


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The beds were tattered; the frames in splinters, the sheets shredded; a sorry sight indeed. And what of the reputation? The town already throbbed with rumours, excited whispers coursing through the streets, of murderous figures moving in the night, visiting the inn, and preyed upon its customers.

Butturbur looked upon the damage, heart heavy with both sadness and alarm. There was no guarantee the danger would not return.

And worse, that morning he discovered that an attack by wraiths in service of the Dark Lord counted as an ‘Act of the Gods’, and therefore his insurance would not cover him.