Crawling backwards through the tiny space, Fea pulled herself free and turned to sit slumped on the ground “There’s still too many out there” she moaned completely fed up “the place is crawling with them.” By now her hair was completely matted and dusty making her look like a one hundred year old woman, she even felt old too as her legs were beginning to seize up from being stuck inside a small ruined area where walls had been broken down but leaving a space just large enough to hide in from the trolls outside.
“Do we have absolutely anything left to eat?” she whinged and looked hopeful at Toddy who was also stuck in here with her “even just the tiniest crumb? I’m so famished, my ribcage is rattling here” she rubbed her starved tummy and picked up a small pebble and threw it at one of Toddy’s hobbit feet.
“Hey!” Toddy frowned lifting his foot after the pebble hit it and looked at the bottom of his sole inspecting it. “No, there is still nothing to eat, not now, and not an hour ago when you asked me, and not even the time before that” he answered annoyed “Your sounding more and more like Lofty, forever moaning about food you are.”
Fea sat quietly for a few more minutes studying Toddy and how awful he was looking too and suddenly a smile broke out on to her face “You know, people might mistake us” she pointed at his dusty curly hair “Other than the difference in our height, you look like a mini me!”
Toddy felt quite offended “Mini? I’ll have you know, I am very tall by hobbit standards” he held up his head as if proving his point from his sitting position “besides, I think it is more the other way around, it’s you trying to look like a hobbit is a more satisfactory explanation, your obviously not happy with the way you look.” Toddy turned his face away as if to ignore her now but the disappointment swelled up again instantly when he remembers there was still nothing to look at other than rocks, dust and more rocks. “We need a plan” he announced rightly fed up of their confined positions “We need to make a map and discover a way out of this place and to somewhere that’s got a little bit more room” he decided taking charge “I propose….” He began dictating orders….
Fea raised a brow in his direction and coughed slightly “Ahem… you propose? Since when were you made Head of Operations here? Who put you in charge? I’m the taller, and the smarter, I should be the one proposing anything if there’s anything to propose” she pointed her finger at him accusingly.
Toddy opened his mount to protest at Fea’s protesting when suddenly there was a loud crash and yelling outside. Cowering down lower, Toddy put his hands up to this head just in case any debris fell down on top of their heads. “I propose putting you in charge and I propose you get us out of here!” he gave his one and only order.
As the noise outside became deafening, Fea put her hands over her ears to drown out the sound “They are giving me some headache!” she moaned “If I didn’t know better, I’d swear they were having a party out there. Imagine having them as neighbours”. Looking over at Toddy who was just as miserable as she was, she decided enough was enough “Right that’s it, we can’t stay here, they will smell us out with the stink coming from us, we have to move.” Fea looked around to see if there was anything worth taking with them but they didn’t possess much of anything at all and even this depressed her “what I wouldn’t give for a bit of water” she moaned “not even to drink it, but to wash my teeth” she bared her teeth for Toddy to see “See? They are all furry, it’s been that long since they were brushed.”
Just then outside, thudding could be heard. Not like someone walking but more like something hitting the ground in a random pattern. The noise began to quieten down and within minutes it was more or less quiet. Fea raised both brows and looked hopeful to Toddy “You know what I’m thinking?” she whispered while straining to hear more outside “I think our party boys here are all partied out.”
TBC
