Conclave - written for Sweet & Short

[prisca]

Title: Conflict of Conscience
Character: Sister Agnes
Words: 124
Prompt: Invisible

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When Sister Agnes rushed through the Vatican Palace floors, it felt like she was invisible to the cardinals. All of them gathered together to elect the new pope. Thinking about this, she knew it was not her business; she was only one of the Sisters, supposed to serve God and the cardinals while they were in the palace.

Maybe her thoughts were heretical, but God had given her ears and eyes and the things she got to know because no one would ever notice her presence disturbed her. Because she knew that if she didn't dare to overstep her lines today, something she hadn't even thought about since she joined the monastery at nineteen, the wrong one would end up as the Holy Father.

One Life - written for Sweet & Short

[prisca]

Title: More Than Nothing
Character: Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton
Words: 139
Prompt: hurt

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Nicholas put the album back onto the desk, closing his eyes. Even after all the years, the memories were still so lively. Memories of all the children he hadn't been able to save. It still hurt; he would never stop thinking he hadn't done enough.

Then he turned his head, and his eyes fell on the picture on his desk. The picture of a woman surrounded by her spouse, her children, and grandchildren. A happy family. A family that would never have existed if he hadn't put a half-starved, frightened little girl on a train so many years ago. Like about sixhundred other children.

A light smile turned up on his lips. Some of them he would meet today, and they would laugh and chat and remember the ones they had lost. This was so much more than nothing.