100 in 100!

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Your challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to crank out 100 words or 1 graphic inspired by the word:
Strike

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Looking up from her father’s face, the man lying motionless upon his bed as if he had failed to wake up from his slumber, she nodded at the man who knocked and entered and gave him the smallest, smallest smile she could muster. It was the first time she had been able to look at him since seeing him bloody on the floor, but having decided she would rather infix this vision of him, peaceful and almost content, his cheeks smooth as if freshly shaven, his hair combed and styled in the manner he preferred, she had finally gathered the courage to come here. She had thought she should do this alone but was relieved to have Aman’s company at last.
“How can one strike kill someone?” she whispered, barely loud enough to be heard.
“Hit one of those pillars with enough force…in the right way…” He shrugged. “Was told I would find you here.”
“Nowhere else to be.” With all visitors to the Fortress turned away yesterday and today, there was no pressing business to conduct. Until she heard word from LaGuardia’s Laedans, there was little they could do. “How long do you think we have…before he turns…”