"Stay there you little bastard..." she states as she blinks before refocusing her sight in the cross hairs of her rifle. She takes a slow deep breath in, pulls back the hammer, and rests her index finger on the trigger.
"There we go....nice and straight," she adjusts her sight once more to the left lining her up with the perfect shot; slowly she pulls back the trigger.
"Bang....."
There is a few second delay between the trigger being pulled and the fall of the hammer...
"BANG!!!!"
There is a loud crash as the rifle expels the ammunition and juts backward ramming the butt into her shoulder and knocks her mini hat off. She watches through h
Sayuri's Tale ~ Chapter 10 by SayuriSakuraJustin, literature
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Sayuri's Tale ~ Chapter 10
“In... and out...” The words grow faint as Sayuri takes another deep breath. A few moments pass, another deep breathe is taken in; the steady rise and fall of his chest slows as he turns inward, deep within his psyche. Another moment passes, the further he recedes. Finally all is quiet; the brook babbles no more.... the leaves end their quiet whispers.... Sayuri breathes again. With this breath there is a flicker of a thought...one of a time when all was good, when all was joyous. Instead of letting this thought pass Sayuri latches on to it and lets it unfold.
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“Come, come child we must make haste, or we shall b