World of Thomas Blinx

Chapter III: The girl with the blond hairs

About four hours later I woke up again. I was still lying in the grass, but I was not alone. A girl with blond hairs was sitting next to me. Hello stranger, she said. So I replied with the same word as she greeted me. Then she threw pants to me, made of brown leather. She said I had to put them on. I thanked her and asked her name. I liked her name. She was called Melissa. After this short presentation of me and her we went to the river. There at the river was a beautiful mill with a guy in front of it. Melissa went to that guy and bought two breads. Oh, I was starving, so I ate the whole bread in less then five minutes.

Then I asked where she found the gold coins the breads were paid with. She said she had looted it out of dead rats. Eeeew…, dead rats!?! So she first had to kill a rat and after that, you had to put your hands into the dead animal to see if it there was some money inside. It seems that you had to kill animals to survive here. Because when you didn’t do anything, you didn’t get money to buy food. That’s probably the meaning of the club that I had with me when I came here. When Melissa was done eating her bread, she said that she wanted me to teach how I hunt rats. I didn’t know that the people in this village were so helpfully. I had to follow here back to the village, and in the middle of the village was a sewer grate in front of a water well. Melissa lifted the sewer grate and climbed down into the sewer. Or let’s say that I thought it was a sewer, because when I was down too, I saw that it was a kind of dark dungeon full with people who were slaying rats. Why don’t those people search a job? I could see the smile on Melissa her face. I think you are the funniest at, she replied. When I wanted to ask what was so funny, Melissa had found her first rat. Come on Thomas, she yelled, kill it! Just hit with your club on it as hard as you can. After that dead rat, we killed six more.