“Ssh,” he soothed. “It’s all right now. Everything’s fine.”
Her shudders slowly eased as she relaxed against him. “I was so scared.”
“I know. Shh, now.” Magic effervesced beneath his fingertips as he ran his hand in calming strokes down her back, his powers reinforcing his words.
“I…” Her eyes began drifting shut, eyelashes briefly ghosting against her cheekbones before they flashed open in remembered alarm. “There’s something bad coming… Something…”
His hand continued its motion over her back. “It’s all right. There’s nothing bad coming. Just relax. Go to sleep. There’s nothing to worry about.”
Her eyes closed. Her breathing evened out.
Finally! He’d been starting to think she’d never relax.
With a pulse of power he loosened the tethers that held her soul bound into its fleshy cage. No longer guarded by conscious awareness, her soul slid easily free.
He smiled, dropping the empty body at his feet as he examined the glowing soul, so full of potential, now coalesced between his fingers. “You’ll never have anything else to worry about, at all.”
Word count: 175
To read the other entries, or to submit your own, click the little blue frog.
This post is for Priceless Joy’s Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers challenge. This week’s prompt was provided by Goroyboy. I haven’t joined in with this challenge – or written much in the way of flash fiction at all, in fact – for a while now, bit I couldn’t resist this prompt.
I hope you enjoyed it.
An Enchanted Place 
Wow! Powerful and disturbing at the same time. “eyelashes briefly ghosting against her cheekbones” one of my favorite lines in this story. My girlfriend years back called these butterfly kisses.
Peace
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you for the lovely comment. I’m very glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
What a fantastic magical tale. Now I want to know more about this dark wizard.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks. I’m glad you liked it. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
It seems he may not have entirely benign intentions, this soul collector. Evocative tale.
LikeLike
A wonderful piece, Louise. Very chilling and suspenseful.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Mum. 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Louise, this is fantastic! So powerful and yet a horrifying story! Great job! Thank you for participating in the FFfAW challenge. I have missed you!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks PJ. I’ve been too busy to do much of anything other than the odd photography post on my blog for a while now. Luckily, this story pretty much wrote itself. I’ve missed taking part in the FFfAW challenge every week!
LikeLike
Creepy. I had a feeling all was not going to end well for her 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
She never really stood a chance! Thanks for reading, Ali. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nicely written. Now I wonder, what does he do with all those souls?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Russell. I’m glad you liked it. 🙂 Souls are powerful things. I’m sure he can put them to all sorts of unpleasant uses.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Creepy indeed. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wallie thinks this story is very scary! What a disturbing twist…we both enjoyed it a lot (although Wallie is refusing to go to sleep now. Silly imp.).
LikeLike