Shadow's Workshop

We return to MediaWorksWonders to check up on our hero Toj.

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It's been a while since my last post so i thought i do a quick summary of what happens lately. So let's start with the order sugested by the title:

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I am an impulsive shopper, i don't like shopping but when i see something and i really like what i see i just have to buy it even though i might regret it later. But this time i think i did the right thing.

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As Sammy walked towards the door, he noticed Marlo. He was hard to miss, because of all the noise he was making while whisteling , but he did not pay a great deal of attention to him and continued to walk towards the door. Bogin was hopping right after him, as a good host that he is. Marlo while staring at the wall noticed that there was a big wooden box of somesort next to the kitchen counter. That box looked very strange, he had never seen a box like that before. It was tall and slender, with a big circle top and a long shaft going all the way from the top to the bottom of the box where it ended in a another circle. The top part looked like a face with a mustache, and then one of the mustaches moved abit and Marlo was even more intrigued, because he never saw a moving mustache. The lowe part was made out of some kind of a metal and looked very heavy, but it sometimes moved by the smallest of increments, almost unnoticeable. Will studing the box next to the kitchen counter, Marlo didn't even notice that Sammy left and that Bogin took a seat next to him...staring at the same thing that he was.

After a few minutes Bogin intrigued by the way that Marlo was starring at the wodden box, he calmly asked:
-What are you looking at?
-Well-said Marlo on a soft almost childish voice-At that wodden box next to the kitchen counter.What is that?
Bogin raised his left eyebrow as if to signal that he was very surprized that Marlo did not know what the wodden box was.
-That's a clock my friend, it tells time -replied Bogin.
Marlo still looking at the wodden box...aaa...at the clock noticed that it's mustache moved again.
-If it tells time, then why isn't it saying anything?-asked Marlo.
Bogin looked at the clock again and noticed something, then he got up from his chair in a hurry.
-Look how time flies, when you are having fun.
Marlo looked at Bogin, not understanding what that meant.
-Come on already, the darkness is getting closer by each moment that passess-said Bogin in a hurry.
Marlo slowly got up from his chair and followed Bogin as he was hopping towards the exit. Then he climbed the ladder that led out of Bogin's rabbit hole. As he slowly came out of the rabbit hole he noticed that it was night and now he understood what Bogin meant when he said that time was flying.
Marlo knew now that it was time for the Owl to appear and that his question is going to be answered soon, but he didn't even have time to feel the butterflies in his stomach before, he heard Bogin.
-Come on already it's a long way back to your little house and we must not keep the Owl waiting.
Bogin was also getting ready to finally meat this misterious Owl which keeps putting houses on his field. He knew that now is the time to demand answers from him, and maybe also get some compensation for all his trouble.

So they were running and hopping togheter in the pitch dark.

Life was good, thought Marlo, he had a full stomach, a nice comfy chair to sit on and tonight he is going to get this long awaited answer. What more could a dwarf ask for? Bogin finished his carrot, got off his chair and left the room where he and Marlo were. Marlo did not even notice this, he was to busy thinking about the possible solutions for his problem with the snails. Hew knew that the whole snail boy and snail girl going out on a date and then getting married could not be true, if it was then the snail farm wouldn't have much success, after all based on his experience finding the right dwarf or snail girl in this case, was even harder then finding a needle in a haystack, at least when searching the haystack for a needle you can be pretty sure that there is only one needle. If he would have to wait for each snail girl and each snail boy to find his match then the productivity of the farm would be next to zero and that would be a catastrophe so this is not an option. But how do they mate then, he thought as he scratched his chin, maybe they just lay eggs like chicken, or maybe just maybe the stork brings the snail babies the same way that he brings the human babies.

As Marlo's thoughts drifted away into the distance, he's mind instinctively brought up thoughts of his 1st love. Marlena, the most beautiful Dwarf girl he had ever met.She had hair that seemed to be spun from the finest gold and dark eyes that could put any log on fire. It definitely put his heart on fire so many years ago.
Ah, Marlena,he thought. She was his "needle in a haystack"... If only he could look into those beautiful eyes again... If only it could be as easy for snails to fall in love.

While Marlo was daydreaming of his long lost love a small,brown, hairy creature was walking down the same long and bright hallway as Marlo did a few hours ago. It was Sammy the friendly neighbourhood gopher. Sammy was and always will be Bogin's best friend, they know each other for as long as they could remember. Sammy was quite tall for a gopher, and quite brown too, his fuzzy coat was short and clean, he had a big chin and two big white front teeth. Know you may not know this but gopher's don't have white teeth, they usually have yellow or gray ones.But Sammy was very particular about oral hygiene, so he washed and washed until he had white teeth,his teeth were in a bright contrast to his small little black eyes, which looked like two little pieces of charcoal. But before i can continue i must tell you one other interesting fact about Sammy, he too had one distinctive mark that always made him stand out of a crowd of gophers, even though gophers usually leave in a small group and there are never more then 2-3 around you could be sure that the one wearing a bright blue tie is Sammy...that and the white teeth of course are a sure give away. He works at the chocolate factory, he is in charge of "Local Distribution" as he called it, but In fact that was just fancy way of saying that he is a door to door chocolate salesman. So as i was saying, Sammy was walking down the long corridor, and sure enough he entered Bogin's kitchen, saw Marlo daydreaming, but he sad nothing he just kept on walking by and entered the same door through which Bogin left.

Marlo awaken by the sound of the closing door, noticed that he was all alone, he started to clear the table, after all if Bogin was so kind to give him food, the least he could do was to clear the table. As he was doing that he heard some strange sounds coming from the room where Bogin and Sammy were. Being a curios dwarf by nature, he went closer to the door, he wanted to enter but did not know if it was his place to interject. So he decided to stand by the door hoping that Bogin will come out and introduce the stranger he is talking too.

After what seemed like an eternity Sammy walked out of the room, surprinzing Marlo who sudenly started staring blankly at the other side of the room and whisteling and old old song.