Forum Three-Items Story sentence by sentence

I'll start. Each person write a couple of sentences to the story.

 

 

The castle was high on the cliff. The sky was dark and dreary and that is where I had to go. I was reluctant to go, but I had no choice.

I have to find her.  I have to keep my promise.  Somehow.

I set out on my perilous journey up the rocky cliffs to free my love. She's been gone from my life for far too long now, and I need her warmth, her strength and her love to set me free.

I mounted the hill and started to climb.  My desire to find my love pushed me on with an everlasting intensity.

I know it will be tough, but I don't care. Anything for my love. Anything to hear her once more.

I needed to feel my lips on hers, her hands in mine.

I needed to see those beautiful eyes and uplifting smile. I trudged further up, wiping the sweat from my brow.

"You're never gonna make it up there," grumbled a voice behind me. "I give it about a mile up before the hill gets too steep."

"I may have not been an elite warrior in ... the barren land's stronghold, but I will hold my own in my character, " Haskon muttered as he retained his breath in wisps while the cliff face betrayed its steepness.

[Tsk tsk, starfish. Back to first-person we go]