Author Note: Our English teacher made us write these essays on English proverbs during our English lessons. I decided to write them in fanfiction-style. I haven't changed the text in any way from what it was when I returned it to my teacher. I have counted the words on the basis of their meaning in the Finnish language. The titles of my essays will work as a theme in the story and as a reason to Grimize's behaviour.
Disclaimer: I do not own draconians or the DragonLance-books.
Claimer: I came up with Grimize the Baaz and Torment the Kapak, so I own them.
English:
Maanantai 14.2.2005, aine:
Once bitten, twice shy
Grimize walked down the hill towards a tavern. He was tired of the bad food that he had eaten for the last two months. All he wanted was something good to eat and maybe a soft bed to sleep in now that he had a little money and a night off.
He went in and ordered brown bread, ham, spiced potatoes and ale. He sat down at the only free table in the corner of the tavern.
He looked around the tavern and noticed some other draconians. They had two tables in use, there was about nine or ten of them.
All of them had a higher rank than he did: Kapaks, Bozaks and Sivaks. He himself was only a Baaz.
He decided not to draw their attention because higher ranking draconians sometimes abused the low ranking Baaz's for the smallest reasons imaginable, even just for fun. He had learned it the hard way.
The waitress brought his food and drink. He paid and started buttering his bread. He noticed one Kapak called Torment, whom he knew well.
Grimize lowered his head hoping that Torment wouldn't notice him and started eating his food quickly. After eating, Grimize slowed down and continued sipping his ale.
He got lost in his thoughts and didn't notice the other draconians coming to him before they sat down at the table.
Two hours later Grimize left the tavern unharmed, but scared.
(199 words)
Author Note: The normal limit for the amount of words in our is 150-200 words. The top word limit for these proverb-essays is 100 words for some reason. I didn't know that when I wrote this, so this accidentally became longer than it was supposed to be. The future essays will be 100 words or shorter.
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