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Prompt Generator Fic #1 (Repost)

Virgil + Lucille Tracy + Adventure + Mountain

Virgil broke away at a run, pulling his pudgy hand from Lucy’s grip. Her head whipped around to follow him desperately in the crows, trapped by the hefty pram that held his sleeping brothers.

“Virgil!” she called desperately after him.

Nobody seemed to notice the small child shrieking happily as he dodged in between legs and shopping carts.

Nobody seemed to notice the helpless calls of a mother frantically searching.

Virgil giggled as he stumbled into a store, blinking under the bright lights. His daddy had told him a story last night, a story of hills that were a hundred times bigger than the tallest building in town, where you could travel for miles and not reach the top.

He didn’t quite know what a mountain was, but he knew that the giant display he’d spotted from all the way on the other side of the mall – that had to be a mountain. He’d run for ages to get there, he could barely see the top, and he was going to climb it.

Just like in daddy’s story.

He remembered too, the crucial detail that Mommy had added as she draped over Daddy’s shoulder and before she’d dropped down to give them all kisses.

“It sounds like an adventure.”

“Adventure!!” Scott had cheered, leaping out of bed, and Virgil had cheered too. He didn’t know what an adventure was, but he knew the word lit sparklers in his chest and opened his eyes wide as he looked up at the sky.

Maybe by climbing his mountain, he’d find his adventure too.