Finally another prize fic.

... dids it earlies and nows I'm thinkin to much and I can'ts be sleepin and this hasn't happens to me since the veries first years we hads the band and I can'ts be rememberins how to be dealins with it..." As he spoke, Pickles could see the hurricane swirling in the pools of Toki's eyes, gathering momentum, gathering insanity, working up toward one hell of a storm. The kid had drawn his knees up to ...

 Mining. It's all I seem to be doing now and these days...I dont have to fight much...just the occasional critter that gets it into his head that I'm stealin it's shiny thing...even my dealins with the Alliance are short and without much angry glares. If I find a ore site and there's already someone there...I'll wait and see what they're doin...if the sites free, I mine, if not, I find another. ...