Ellurian-born grubballer Io Balzek sat at a familiar spot in the empty confines of Molentia Circle. The bench was quite familiar to him, as he spent the majority of the game time there, and, for the past week, he had spent much of the practice time there, too, waiting for his turn to play forschbowler, or for the team to run laps, or generally for the nine hells to freeze over so he could get a chance. Balzek respected player/coach Gorben the Something because he had played against him, but it was impossible to tell what his coach thought of him because Balzek didn't know commonspeak. And common was an impossible, baffling language that really sounded idiotic to him. However, he was a land of "commas", so he felt that he should try to learn it, and he was picking up a lot of profanity and he knew the names for the player positions. Luckily, the word "grubball" was based on the Ellurian word "groba" so it was easily recognisable. "Balzek!" Gorben the Something hollered from across the field as he pointed to midfield, "Blah blah blah something blah blah!" "Yea boss," Balzek chirped as he popped off of the bench and trucked toward home circle with his head down. As he approached his familiar position on the field, he noticed that Ware the Something was already there. "Balzek!" Gorben yelled, "Something something hinterplodder!" Akel the Ellurian turned and looked at him, smirking. "Boss says to play hinterplodder, young one." "Hinterplodder?" Balzek stood still in confusion. "You better do it fast," Akel urged, "Or he's going to have you sit on the bench again." Balzek darted over to centerfield and took the empty postion at hinterplodder-right, standing behind the girl-player Anika the Something and beside Arving Brons. They faced the hinterplodders of the practice squad, Otto the Something and two other guys he didn't recognise. "Yea boss we go now," Balzek chattered as he took his stance. It felt strange, but least it wasn't the bench.
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