Two Sisters, Three Rabbits, and a Beefcake
A Short, Comedic Fantasy
“Captain! Captain!” The young sailor burst from below decks and ran to the helm, their cap clasped to their chest as they recovered their breath.
“Percival. What is it this time?”
The sailor had gone white as an animated corpse. “The rabbits, Captain! They… They’ve escaped their cages!”
Surely she’d misheard. Captain Ren turned to them with the deliberate precision of a tailor working a needle through a tough strip of leather. “You mean the rabbits carrying a disease that could wipe out half the kingdom’s magic? Those rabbits, Percival?”
Percival opened their mouth to answer.
As if on cue, a cotton-tailed culprit exploded out of the door Percival had just come through. It screeched, flapped up past Percival’s head, then dove over the edge of the ship and into the sky below.
