Drabble

[beer_good_foamy]

Here's a drabble that popped into my head and seemed to fit today's open_on_sunday challenge ("Twist/Plot")

Survival

Once when she was 12, Sam Zabuto lost Kendra in a crowd.

He found her staring at a group of dancers in front of a flatbed truck with an old-fashioned sound system blasting bass-heavy music; Marley, Tosh, Burning Spear. A boy, maybe 14, took her hand with a smile and pulled her into the throng. She danced for a few moments; when she saw Zabuto, she obediently returned to him.

All the way home there was a twist in her step, a backbeat of her own.

It took an extra week of training to get her defensive stance right again.

Comments

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

This was extremely stupid of Zabuto. Didn't he realise that dance and combat are linked? Hadn't he ever seen Capoeira in action? He should have encouraged her to move with the rhythm rather than trained it out of her.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

In retrospect, that would probably have turned out better for everyone, yeah.