Verisimilivirate
As the angry little dwarfish guy charges headlong at you, you casually step backwards until the edge of the manhole is at your heels. Normally, you wouldn't try what you're about to do, but you see it as the only viable escape.
With seconds left (when he is almost upon you), you step back and drop from his sight down the manhole. As he speeds past the opening overhead, you crash into the slimy sludge and filth which you thought to be a little closer beneath you than it actually ended up being. It's also deeper - as you find yourself waste deep in what you quickly identify (by acrid aroma) as human excrement. You wade desperately to the walkway on the side, scratching your way up a small concrete embankment to what could be your path to freedom.
It is then that the nasty little troll pokes his head down the hole by which you evaded him. "A-HA!!" he yells. You begin running as you've never run before down the smelliest path you believe you've ever been on. Expecting to hear the scuffle of his feet behind you (and hearing nothing), you turn to see that as this little guy is short, he is also wiiiide. So wide, in fact, that he cannot seem to fit through the manhole opening. You saunter over to a drain grate and catch a ray of sunlight, saying, "Now let's see what was so important about this scroll..."
At once, the little bugger pops through the hole, hits the ground running like a madman, and screams, "DON'T READ THAT SCROLL!!"
As it appears it might be your only salvation at this point, with Chubby Chubberton bearing down on you with ever-increasing speed, you hurriedly glance to the English at the right side of the parchment and read aloud:
"Space and Time will come undone
When e'er these simple words are read,
For as the shadows hide from sun
So will the Earthen come to Fred."
"Fred?" you think aloud.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" the unearthly shriek pierces your ears for a moment before your vision whites out before you, causing everything in sight to disappear...
With seconds left (when he is almost upon you), you step back and drop from his sight down the manhole. As he speeds past the opening overhead, you crash into the slimy sludge and filth which you thought to be a little closer beneath you than it actually ended up being. It's also deeper - as you find yourself waste deep in what you quickly identify (by acrid aroma) as human excrement. You wade desperately to the walkway on the side, scratching your way up a small concrete embankment to what could be your path to freedom.
It is then that the nasty little troll pokes his head down the hole by which you evaded him. "A-HA!!" he yells. You begin running as you've never run before down the smelliest path you believe you've ever been on. Expecting to hear the scuffle of his feet behind you (and hearing nothing), you turn to see that as this little guy is short, he is also wiiiide. So wide, in fact, that he cannot seem to fit through the manhole opening. You saunter over to a drain grate and catch a ray of sunlight, saying, "Now let's see what was so important about this scroll..."
At once, the little bugger pops through the hole, hits the ground running like a madman, and screams, "DON'T READ THAT SCROLL!!"
As it appears it might be your only salvation at this point, with Chubby Chubberton bearing down on you with ever-increasing speed, you hurriedly glance to the English at the right side of the parchment and read aloud:
"Space and Time will come undone
When e'er these simple words are read,
For as the shadows hide from sun
So will the Earthen come to Fred."
"Fred?" you think aloud.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" the unearthly shriek pierces your ears for a moment before your vision whites out before you, causing everything in sight to disappear...