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Challenge #444
Feb. 20th, 2025 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverToday's challenge is to write a couple of paragraphs about two (or more) characters in a public place, in which at least one of them is trying to communicate something to the other without letting anyone who might be listening in know what they're saying.
This could be as simple as trying to mask the name of a person they want to share some gossip about or as complex as two international spies having a clandestine meeting. The speaker may be natural about it or may be fumbling as they try to decide what to say. The only thing is that the reader needs to know, through either the dialogue or the prose, that they're trying to mask what they're saying (though you don't have to tell the reader what the truth is that they're trying to mask).
This could be as simple as trying to mask the name of a person they want to share some gossip about or as complex as two international spies having a clandestine meeting. The speaker may be natural about it or may be fumbling as they try to decide what to say. The only thing is that the reader needs to know, through either the dialogue or the prose, that they're trying to mask what they're saying (though you don't have to tell the reader what the truth is that they're trying to mask).