Hot Coals, a Freewrite

Runt Odel was walking on hot coals.

Her life was inspired by Torundel, whose own life had been the stuff of rebellious and lascivious dreams. She never quite got the lascivious part down, even though she'd transformed herself from toady to hottie, but boy could she be a thorn in the side!

Runt Odel posted shitposts ridiculing this self-serving politician or that. Whenever she wore a scarf of silk from Torundel's lover’s gown, she became invisible, and suddenly able to sing. Runt Odel would then traipse all over town singing bawdy songs, embarrassing her enemies and disclosing truths.

Eventually someone caught on to her. That blasted Nordlute, the SysAdmin, had recognized her cat - a fantastically large, luminously orange, and ponderously vocal feline - trailing behind the unseen songstress as she exposed many a corrupt act on her nightly jaunts. One of the exposed was Nordlute himself, and he was having none of that.

The next day her name was in the news. The townspeople were enraged at her antics. None knew when they would be next. They called for her head!!! A year earlier they would have had it too, but they couldn’t cut off the head of a beautiful woman so instead

Runt Odel was walking on hot coals.

This is my entry to @mariannewest's daily freewrite challenge. Todays' prompt is hot coals.

My freewrite is related to some fan art I engaged in with @katharsisdrill and others some months ago in @theinkwell. It's too long a story to tell, but let me just say, I had a blast doing it. Those were not freewrites, I would spend days writing them, trying to tie my little pieces into the pieces written by others, which included @vcelier, @steevc, @slobberchops, @prayzz @donnadavisart and, of course, the originator @katharsisdrill.

Today's is a freewrite. I remembered as much as I could of my character and the others to write this. All of the entries were exactly 211 words, as is this one. The character of Nordlute was a brainchild of @steevc. Is it a freewrite? Yes indeed. Did it take me five minutes to write? Thereabouts, if you don't count the time I spent trying to get it to exactly 211 words.

Come join in the fun in @freewriters! People actually read your work!!! Cool contests! Here's one that you can win just by leaving a comment. This week there will be three winners!

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Images graciously supplied by @katharsisdrill