The sea.
It is one of the most inspiring things on any planet. Songs are composed and sung about it. Artists paint the waves crashing into the shore. Ships sail across the waters. Riders fly above the waves.
The sea.
It inspires every single race to ever lay eyes upon its waters.
Except for Dwarves.
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The Bonds of Man
Prologue
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It just so happens that two Dwarven miners were breaking away at the rocks one day during the war. The dwarves needed lots of ore and rock for the war effort, and guess who got who mine it all?
Kranell and Bureg of course.
The two of them were mining in a tunnel that looked over the sea at the elevation of 50 feet, it was used primarily for the Varden to receive goods from Surda. When the Varden moved to Surda, it was abandoned, and began to be used for mining ore and minerals.
Krannell and Bureg both didn't want to be part of the frontline, so they were instead forced to be miners in the old Varden supply tunnel along with five other dwarves.
So these seven dwarves worked long hours to be kept out of the frontline, it was a perfect deal.
Krannell didn't like it though. With this job, he was always tired because he never got enough sleep. Bureg on the other hand was always ready to go at everyone's throat because he never got enough sleep-
"KRANNELL, STOP SLEEPING AND GET YOUR ARSE OVER HERE AND START WORKING!" Bureg shouted at his co-worker.
"Huh?" Krannell mumbled sleepily, he closed his eyes again and turned over. He yawned and-
"NOW!"
"Fine…" Krannell said as he slowly got up.
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About two minutes later Krannell was standing by Bureg's side.
"What do you want?" Krannell asked.
"I need you to help me dig out this tablet I found embedded in the rock. It is pretty wedged in there, so I need the two of us." Bureg explained.
Krannell looked at him blearily for a second and then stated. "Why didn't you get one of the other dwarves to help you, you interrupted my nap."
"Because…." Bureg explained testily, "You have been my friend every since we were still breast fed, and because you are my friend, I will let you help me dig this tablet out. We will probably get a raise for finding it, and I will let you get a few more dollars in your pocket, Understand?"
Krannell's eyes widened. "Oh" he stated.
"Exactly."
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Eight minutes later, they had gotten the tablet out from the ground. That thing was REALLY wedged in there.
Bureg looked at it in his hands. The words were written in the language of Men, and he only knew how to read Dwarvish. He looked at his friend. "Do you know how to read the language of Men?"
"Yes I do. If there are two things I am good at, they are reading and loafing." Krannell replied.
"Hmpf."
Krannell took the tablet and stared at it for a few seconds, he squinted and stated, "I can only make out the title… the rest of it is covered in a layer of grime, but the title has a word that I have never seen." He turned to Bureg and shrugged.
"Can you take a guess at the pronunciation of the word?" Bureg stated.
There was a few seconds of silence, then Krannell stated what he thought was the correct pronunciation of that word.
"The Planet…."
He paused again, trying to figure out the pronunciation of the last word.
He took in a deep breath and said,
"Earth."
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Well there you go, the prologue of my latest entry out of the comedy genre. I actually have a plot line for this story, so I should be completing this story sometime in the future. To all my MarySue fans: I WILL BE UPDATING SOMETIME SOON. There you go.
As you can guess, this is a Earth/Alagaesia crossover fic, and this one is actually going to be ORIGINAL. I am going to be moving away from the boring old "21st century Earth girl gets sucked into Alagaesia, falls in love with Eragon or Murtagh and has special powers and whose name is Mary Sue etc. etc."
This story is probably going to be epic if it ever gets completed, because I have so many things I have to cover in the story it is unbelievable. I am counting on well over 40,000 words for this one, perhaps even up to 60,000 or more. But anyways…
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ERAGON, but Krannell and Bureg are my beloved comic relief duo, so don't steal them. That is all.
