| Touch of Rain |
[Dec. 20th, 2005|01:05 am] |
It was cold here. The wind blew unceasingly, audible through the tightly fitted, fresh smelling planks as it wailed. That would take getting used to, an unending howl of wind in place of the unsubsiding crash of wave.
But the rat did not really mind the strangeness all that much; she had clawed and squirmed until the opening of the burlap sack had become wide enough to admit her dirty, furred form, her tail like a worm slipping in to follow. Here there was grain and plenty of it, enough to last her for ages if she would have been permitted to stay. Of course, she knew she'd have to abandon the bag eventually, but there was nothing to be done about that. It stank of man, and somewhere in her tiny rodent brain she knew that meant trouble.
Trouble meant a quick snack to hold her over, retreat to a place of safety, and the immediate hunt for food thereafter. Human trouble had led her to flee her comfortable burrow by the human storehouse. All she could do was to run, until she found the familiar pattern of worked wood that indicated to most humans a dock. To a rat, it indicated food could be found nearby, so the cautious animal had crept through the barrels and the crates and the stacked sacks and dodged the heavy trod of human foot. The adventure climaxed in the locating of a piece of braided hemp that, rather than having been coiled uselessly upon the floor like a snake's shed skin, stretched tautly from wood to wood. The falling action was in finding a place to hide from the restless, strange giants that inevitably swept through the hold, seeking and finding many of her kind. Come to think of it, she must have been the only one they missed, for she had not caught the scent of any other rats, but then the giants had been significantly more thorough than usual. |
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| G'mornin' World |
[Sep. 5th, 2005|12:29 pm] |
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Oi there! Jachra here, just kicking off the ball with a shot of cheer. No emoness here, and probably no feelings...nope, this'll be used for whatever the hell I feel it should be used for. See ya next time! |
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