FF/SPN: Eurydice Settlement

I'm posting this as an experiment, more or less. I'm kind of chipping away at this thing, which has developed a kind of plot and yet isn't a single story. So I have three parts of varying lengths done, and am going ahead with the first of them here, although it's not quite a whole story. It's John/Zoe, or it will be soon enough.

Eurydice Settlement
by Vanzetti

( Strange, Zoe thinks, to dig a grave this late, but who knows why settlers do what they do. She's on her way past when the shadows blur and the man goes sprawling in the dirt like something slammed into him; the night air carries his curses across the burying ground to her. Like something hit him, but there's nothing there -- and then there is, the echo of a flash, a form of pale light -- and then it's gone. )

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