Drabble: Worthwhile

[amedia]

Title: Worthwhile
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Imagiquest Entertainment. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Rating: G
Warning: None
Author's Note: Response to the prompt "cheater" on tinman100. Originally posted here.

Things had always come easily to Ambrose.

Especially his mind, with its keen and dazzling intelligence. He felt like a cheater as he breezed through the hardest subjects; his service to the Queen felt more like play.

He'd never had to work for anything in his life.

When Raw drew out the long-suppressed memories of Ambrose's capture and debrainment, the others were moved by his sacrifice, and the terror and sorrow they thought he felt. Strangely, what he remembered was a thrill of accomplishment, as if he had, for the first time, done something worth doing.

Finally, something was hard.

Comments

[usedusername.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful. The ending line is perfect! The description is great and can really make me picture it even though I've never seen Tinman.

When Raw drew out the long-suppressed memories of Ambrose' capture and...

shouldn't there be an 's' after 'Ambrose''?

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Thank you!