31_days | [11-Dec-2008] [Noir] Give Or Take Lives

Title: Give Or Take Lives
Challenge: 11-Dec-2008 "dying is what, to live, each has to do"
Based on: Noir
Characters: Kirika, Mireille
Type: Humor; 100 words
Warnings: Grim humor.

Noir © Bee Train / ADV Films.

Kirika and Mireille stood back-to-back in a darkened corridor. "How many men surround us?" Kirika whispered.

"Five in front of you," Mireille whispered back, "and four for me... Kirika? What's wrong?"

"If I must kill more men than you to survive," Kirika said thoughtfully, "it is as if my life were more valuable than yours."

"Would you like to trade places!?" an exasperated Mireille hissed.

"No, we'd still be unequal," Kirika said. "But perhaps we could shoot the last man together, at once."

It would be easier, Mireille thought to herself, to shoot all nine men and her by myself!