Recompense

A 2-post collection

Challenge #04686-L302: The Fool's Choice

What’s better after a night barhopping than an impromptu car race on the rain-slick city streets? Why, doing so before seat-belt laws! -- Deathshead419

There was a time which had much more freedom, compared to the modern day. Less freedom when compared to certain other times. Like, say, the paleolithic era. But those had their own caveats. Rampant disease, early death, that sort of thing. But in this era, the age of rock and roll, or the sock hop, there was a freedom that few had ever known. Wealth and prosperity. Opportunity in abundance.

Late night bars on the corners, and cars with the tops left down that were ludicrously easy for the misspending youth to steal.

The cars were faster than they'd ever been. Louder and frightening on the turns. Perfect for making your girl cling to you in squealing terror. And racing another guy in a different stolen car? Nothing better. Heck, even the cops were asleep at this time of night. You could skid and rev, and see how fast the latest tonnage of pure steel beast could go.

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Challenge #03308-I020: Repaid in Full

Though he never knew how many lived there, he'd saved well over 500 lives. Saving that small village by discovering a cure for a plague had become his deepest desire. He'd saved them not because Wraithvine had required him to save lives as penance for his crimes, but because looking into the eyes of the sick children, he swore to every god that would listen he'd rather die than see these people suffer, Wraithvine's requirement bedamned! Cold irony, the cure didn't work

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