Chapter Three

Katya woke with her head pounding. I must have fallen asleep out here and hit my head on a rock. She thought. Her next thought was the realization that she did not recognize the trees around her. Katya groaned and sat up. Then she wished she hadn't. She was surrounded by monster like creatures. Several of them. They grinned evilly at her. One of them came over to her. "Of edrs fektor." It said. " What!" she cried frightened. It just grinned again and said in its strange awful language " Re edr gont." With that he turned and said something to his companions and they dragged her off the ground. One pulled out a long whip, which they intended to use on her. Now Katya did not normally scream but one lick of the whip and she could hardly suppress herself. The creatures stopped when that happened and looked delighted.

Evidently most people didn't scream with just that. Then one shouted at the others. "Edr fianre! Tome ledo foodom sofe lend galle vixley!" He (at least Katya thought it was a male) said nastily. Then the things started to shout at each other. Katya saw her chance but she was afraid to take it. What do I do? She asked herself. Then without another moment of hesitation she ran. And as she ran she had no idea that a man had just come into the clearing and realized that he was to late to save the girl who screamed.

Translations from Orkish

Edr- you

Of-so

Fektor-awake

Re-don't

Gont-worry

Fianre-Idiots

Tome-we

Ledo-are

Foodom-supposed

Sofe-to

Lend-keep

Galle-safe

Vixley-girl

I had to totally make this up. Not real Orkish

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