[Oddpaw]

I’ve had the idea for the Odd Pair for a week or two now, Originally the Mud was a female called Iris, and then I found out that Sam was the only female mud ^^; Anyway I’m still getting a feel for these two so here’s a little drabble of how they first met. ( Even though a drabble is meant to be 100 words and this is 4 times bigger. ) It takes place a few hours before Abe’s Exodus starts.


The Odd Pair – Blind – 400 words

He swung his pick striking hard rock.
He pulled it free releasing loose rubble.
Swing and pull, swing and pull.
He felt though the rubble, sorting sharp rocks from the minerals he had been told to ‘look’ for.
It was night, not that he could tell, all he knew was the mine, Day and night meant nothing to him. However, that didn’t mean he didn’t know he should be asleep right now, that in a few hours the other mudokon’s will be forced out of their pens and back to work and the chance for the brief escape from pain and toil will be over, but he was behind quota, and he didn’t want to be beaten again.
Please not again, he’d work hard, he’d catch up, please just stop hitting –

“Hey you!”

He froze in fear. It was a slig, but he hadn’t heard him coming, and silg’s made so much noise when they walked.

“Get over here.”

The mudokon put down his pick-axe and walked over to where he heard the slig.

“Woah woah lookout! Stop you moron!” The slig yelled. “Are you blind or...oh stay there.”

He waited, he waited for a long time, but he couldn’t hear the slig leave, didn’t hear the mechanical legs of gear and pistons, didn't smell the scent of oil and lubricant, only the slap of flesh against stone, and the smell of a leather mask when the slig came back, the voice much closer this time, and to his left instead of ahead of him.

“Come here.”

The slig seemed relieved when next spoke.

“I got a deal for you........Are ya dumb as well as blind!” Anger echoed from the solid mine walls “Answer me!”

“O-okay...” His meek, shivering, answer barely carried though the dust choked air. “A deal?”

“Yeah, I got eyes, you got legs, I lead you out of here and you carry me. Deal?”

“Out?”

“Yeah out you idiot...” The slig sounded like fear and almost snapped patience. “I’ll take you where there’s no sligs.”

“No sligs? No one to hit me?”

“That’s right I’ll take you where there is no one to hit you.” The slig said in a mocking tone of voice. “Now do we have a deal?”

“Y-yeah!”Hope flew though the air and cheerfully bounced off rock.

“Not so loud!”

“O-okay.”

“Now let’s go.”

“Okay.”

“Hey come back here and pick me up idiot!”

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And thus a ‘beautiful friendship’ is born. XD