“A horse, a
horse, my kingdom for a horse!”
Caligula*
#quote
Today CJ is
over and things are happening. Yes things, of an ambiguous nature.
Hehehaha. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Beasts Of
The Vegetable
Trolls
intimidated most all humans in all the lands. Large, gray, with big
teeth and huge muscles they could scare anyone really. Their size and
shape resembled a gorilla with much more articulate hand and feet so
they had opposable thumbs. They also had the intelligence of humans.
Fortunately for
other races their big teeth were flat, not sharp. A race of
vegetarians and farmers. Even when conquering they only did it to
expand farmland and any captured races usually roamed free and did
for the gorilla creatures what their bodies couldn't comfortably do.
That meant building and crafting and things of that nature. Even with
the little articulation the trolls possessed over beasts like the
massive gorillas they could not make finely detailed things like
jewelry.
One day a human
slave was crafting jewelry for his troll masters. Many generations
ago the trolls conquered his lands. Of all the races that conquer
others trolls are called the most gentle to their slaves, but he
didn't care. He was told about lands where humans and others lived
free. He thought many times of those free lands.
He looked at
the jewelry his arms worked away at. His master was the king of the
trolls in his region. The slave did good work so he earned that
position. The position he hated to see such a creature so often. On
that day of crafting though he decided not to create jewelery as he
normally did. Normally he created things with beauty and happiness in
mind. But instead he poured his malice into it and created a large
heavy necklace with many diamonds and a large ring at the bottom with
more diamonds.
When the slave
gave the troll the necklace he placed it over the king's head. At
that point he showed the full rage behind his life. He decided to do
more than what many armies failed to do. He used the heavy necklace
he designed as a weapon. It never was meant to decorate the king. The
king never fathomed a loyal slave would turn on him.
The slave was
killed shortly thereafter but the kingdom of trolls fell into chaos
soon after with the slaves being inspired to rise up and surrounding
lands taking advantage of the vulnerability of the leaderless land.
And now trolls
worked enslaved. When will they rise? Time will tell.
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