Does your main character have any vanishing allies?

For this prompt, we’re looking for shifting characters. Characters who seem to be on your main character’s side, but are ultimately serving some other cause.

How might your protagonist find out that this character has betrayed them? Does the shifting character confess? Does some other character let the information slip? On accident? On purpose? Does the main character find some piece of evidence suggesting their friend is a foe?

How do they find out? What do they do when they find out?

Write the scene.

That’s it for me!

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