Part two- chapter two- Drogin's Story
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After a few years with Teelk and his team of three sligs and five Mudokon slaves, Drogin was still treated the same way. Crank and the other two sligs, Thol and Minoc continuously picked on him, beat him up or any other bad thing they could conjure up. Teelk was still embarrassed to be seen with the midget, so he put him down with the Mudokons, doing their work. The first day Drogin went down for his first day of work, the Mudokons were actually afraid of him. But when they saw him doing the work they were doing, their fear resided and they became acquainted with each other.
“Hey,” one Mudokon had called, “slig, why are you down here cleaning and building this rotten place with us?”
Drogin looked at them with a bit of pity for them and his own self. He wasn’t much of a talker, but he managed to mumble out, “Because I’m a tiny slig.”
“Yeah, that’s just like a Glukkon,” another said, “if something looks bad on their appearance, they give it to the Mudokons.”
Drogin cocked his head, these Mudokons were used to being slaves.
“So, tiny slig, what’s your name?”
He turned his head back to his job at painting the walls on that floor and said softly, “I’m Drogin.”
After six years of being tortured by Crank and his buddies and being hated by his master, Drogin became good friends with the Muds. After work, they would all take a break and play games, share stories and tell jokes. Drogin would hear so many stories about how Abe destroyed Rupture farms and recently SoulStorm Brewery. The Muds talked about wishing to be saved by Abe, and going back to their native life.
“Do you…” Drogin paused.
“What is it, bud?”
“Do you think I could come to? I mean, to the native life and all. Because I don’t like it here.” Drogin felt stupid asking the Mudokons this.
Each of the scrubs looked at each other as one shrugged and said, “I guess. You’re nice, you wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
“Hey! What’s goin’ on in here?!” Crank yelled entering the room. “This place was supposed to me cleaned and painted an hour ago! You slackers!” Crank lifted his gun and hit a Mudokon hard in the head.
“No, Crank! Don’t!” Drogin called after him, but Crank just turned and hit him with his gun.
“You getting soft on these scrubs, Drogin? You never learn do you.” Then the slig turned back to the Mudokon and shot him. “Now ya got more to clean up.” And he walked out laughing.
Drogin stared into the Mudokon corpse. He couldn’t understand it. One minute, he was telling Drogin that they were all going to be saved, now his friend was dead, gone forever. The other Muds turned their glaring eyes onto Drogin.
“This is all your fault!” one hissed.
“You’re gonna pay!” growled another.
“No, guys, it was an accident, I tried-“ before he could get anything else out, the Mudokons attacked him, slapping and punching. They wouldn’t listen! He had to get away! So he ran.
Drogin ran out of the room and headed for the exit, passing Crank, Thol and Minoc.
“Hey, where’s he goin” Minoc questioned.
Thol was about to give chase, but Crank stepped in his way. “Ah let him go. One less twerp we gotta worry about.”
“Uh, I thought that was the only twerp.” Minoc told Crank, getting confused.
Crank just gave an aggravated sigh and said, “Shut up.”
Drogin ran and ran into the outside world he never knew. He ran until he could run no more. He turned and saw that Teelk’s factory was no where in sight. He had run that far. Finally, he collapsed in the tall grass, not knowing what to do and he fell into unconsciousness.
Next installment- Part three- Harc’s story
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