“Where the hell is it?”
Captain Morrow mined through his cabin, on hands and knees, searching for his chain.
Footsteps startled him, and Moira Figglebottom stepped into his cabin--her presence, an enigma; her smile, fiercely wry.
“Looking for this?”
She dangled a key from her finger.
“Dismiss me again, and I’ll do more than commandeer your ship.”
“You boorish wench!”
Moira backhanded his cheek, key first.
Captain Morrow mined through his cabin, on hands and knees, searching for his chain.
Footsteps startled him, and Moira Figglebottom stepped into his cabin--her presence, an enigma; her smile, fiercely wry.
“Looking for this?”
She dangled a key from her finger.
“Dismiss me again, and I’ll do more than commandeer your ship.”
“You boorish wench!”
Moira backhanded his cheek, key first.
The prompt for the Chimera 66 Challenge #17 at Grammar Ghoul Press is the word "enigma," a noun, meaning "a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation."
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