concertigrossi

Title: Corona
Author: concertigrossi
Rating: G
Word count: exactly 100
Characters: James Norrington
Notes: For the "Fire" challenge on potc100

He was fourteen when first he saw the corposants: the blue-purple flashes along the tops. He raced up to get a better look. As the crewmen watched the young man in motion, the eldritch glow leapt to where he clung to the rigging. It eddied around him.

He laughed. It tickled.

When he returned to earth, Mr. Norrington was the subject of some debate: St. Elmo’s Fire augured well when on the masts, but around a man’s body? An unquestioned death-mark.

Once James survived the requisite twenty-five hours, the superstitious decided instead that he was in St. Erasmus’ good graces.