Reinvention: Challenge #4
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Your character has not run far or fast enough to escape their past and the things they’ve done. They’ve spent a while in this new life now and it’s time for their past to catch up to them.
It’s up to you why it happens. If your character did something unwise in the last challenge, they may have compromised their new identity and safety. Perhaps someone in their new life betrays them to the people they left behind. The people they are hiding from might have broken their way into the protection agency’s files to find their location. Or they may have blackmailed, forced, or paid off someone who could get the information for them. Whatever suits your situation, one thing is true: they know where your character is, they’re not happy, and they’re coming.
Your character may or may not receive warning of this danger bearing down on them. Does someone find out and send them a message to be on the alert? Is it someone from their old life or someone from the protection agency trying to keep them safe? Are they able to prepare to face them? Do they try to run? Or are they surprised by these familiar people simply turning up?
What are these people looking for from your character? Is it simple retribution or something more complex? What are their chances of getting out of this unscathed? What choices are before them, and what will they be forced to give up this time? Do they have to make another deal? If they have family with them, what is their part in all of this?
Your fourth challenge is to tell us how this confrontation with their own past goes. How do they get through it and what price do they pay? Remember that one of the characters in witness protection must survive to the next challenge, but it does not have to be your main character. Who is left standing at the end of it all?
Your bonus element to this challenge is: Scent of Victory. Focus on the sense of smell in your descriptions.