Writing Prompt: The Influencer

Today, the title, Influencer, is applied to someone on social media who influences others to do things and particularly to buy things.  In the social media sense, it's a limited role and, when applied to selling products, it's kind of shallow.  However, in business, history, and literature, the role of influencer is key.  An influencer is someone who makes things happen.  An influencer is the one who organizes and motivates people to make things happen and move the story forward.  The influencer often sets quests into motion.

Tony Robbins - motivation speaker - photo by Brian Solis / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

For today's writing prompt, write a short piece of fiction that includes one or more characters trying to --

persuade someone to take action.