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Old 24-05-2005, 04:43 PM   #3
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Here's a few lines from Goblins!...

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Scrawl and the other three goblins were facing the only surviving human. Apparently, it was a woman, and she was holding a cloth-wrapped bundle in her arm. In her right hand she held a longsword, and they saw that she had trouble wielding it. With a grim yet calm face she awaited her attackers. Scrawl hesitated for a moment, because he felt something like respect for their victim. Then the woman laid aside the bundle, and grasping the sword with both hands, she let out a battlecry and attacked the goblins. The spell broke, Scrawl drew a knife from his belt and shot it at the human. The Woman sank to the floor, the knife between her eyes. The goblin-leader prodded her with a foot, whilst Torgh, the biggest goblin of the squad, walked over to the bundle, looking at it. He drew a face and said: "A human baby. Pretty ugly, this."
Then his expression lightened up and he put forth the idea: "Hey, we could roast it!"
Grima, the goblin huntress, snorted and whacked him on the head with her fist. Then she picked up the bundle and said: "Idiot! You're no better than an orc! It cannot defend itself! Touch it and I'll eat you!"
With that she went down the wooden stairs. Scrawl and Thorg exchanged a look, and Scrawl shrugged. "Women. Do we have to understand that?"
Both greenlings laughed and went down, too.
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As they were ready to leave the Farm, Scrawl noticed that Grima was still holding the little human. "You're not going to take it with you, do you?" he asked, bewildered.
"Of course not", she answered, "but I'm not going to leave it back there to die. I'm going to lay it on the path, so that the farmers will find it."
Thorg mumbled: "Too bad, it would've tasted good for sure."
Grima let out a good assortion of goblin swearings, all aimed at the clumsy soldier.
Scrawl shook his head and headed off to the plains, the nine goblins trailing after him.
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(So, plz tell me what you think. Plz note that I translated on-the-fly, and that my grammar is a little rusty. Suggestions/opinions welcome!)
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