Chapter 2: Boq
Disclaimer: I own this idea, but not any of the characters. Boq is running from Nessa, then stops in the woods where Dorothy will later un-rust him.
Even as the strange figure clanked through the forest it could hear Nessa chasing it. The tinman stared at the sky as it darkened. That was all he needed, rain. As it began to fall he heard it plinking against his hollow body, bouncing off of his metal face. He stared at the sky as it rained mercilessly and slung the axe he had picked up over his shoulder. Then, even as Nessa came running past his hiding place, he discovered he could no longer move. He was a frozen tin statue in the middle of the woods.
He listened to Nessa as her voice slowly faded into the howling wind and rolled his eyes to catch a glimpse of where he was. He was near a small house in the woods. Rolling his eyes up, a sob almost escaped his lips, and it would have if they had not been frozen shut. What was he? A metal monster. How could Glinda ever love him now? Glinda! Who cares about frilly, snobby Glinda?! His eyes betrayed no emotion and he realized, he had none. Was he a monster? Doomed to be trapped by his rusting tin body in these woods-
forever?
