Current mood:	chipper
Current music:	"Be Your Girl"/"Hoshi Ni Negai Wo" - Chieco Kawabe

Challenge 10 response
Title: Traitor
Prompt: #10 - Backstory
Rating: G
Characters: Ho Chi Minh City sprite
Points to: The Unofficial Jade Princess Fan Club
Words: 100

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She hated it here.

At first it was an adventure: living among humans, trading fairy magic for magic of a human kind. But now she understood the epithet: Mud People, mud hearts. This slum was foul.

And her magic was running out.

She wanted to go back to her people, back to Haven. She wanted to go back to being herself.

She would give anything to have her old life back. But she knew it was impossible. She was an Outcast, forever. Whatever she offered, nobody could grant her amnesty.

...Or could they?

Another chapter of her story was beginning.

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"Forever doomed shall be the one / Who betrays my secrets one by one ... "

I decided that just writing someone's backstory would feel too easy, like too much of a cop-out. So instead I shoehorned in a terrible play on the word "backstory": the story of her going back. Ho ho ho. Yes, I'm awful. Gag me with a sock, please.

And blueyeti you'd better hold to what you said and write two drabbles for this challenge. And make them 100 words each. Not just so that I'm not the only entrant - *sob* - but so that for once I don't frelling win. XD;;