[OPEN] Never-ending sand...

Sheldonna slithered through the sands. Ordinarily, she was more of a city person, but a lot of bloblings seemed to like those poff things quite a bit, and if she could grab a few, maybe she could earn some "favors." She wasn't exactly sure what that meant, but it sounded good to her. Yeah. "Favors." Unfortunately, the desert heat was wearing her out. This seemed like the sort of thing other bloblings should be carrying her for. Daggum poffdula trees mostly congregating in the smiley sands. Hmph!

And that's when she saw the speed demon blobling rush on past running towards a chromilla flower. Sheldonna's ears twitched. "Eh. What's got this blob in a rush?"

She slithered through the sand at a lazy pace to approach the lone blue blobling. "Ey, yous. Yeah, yous! Whatcha in a hurry about, eh?" 

Sheldonna gave the dark blue blobling a bit of a look over, then glanced over yonder at the giant chromilla flower. "Yous mean the chromilla? Honestly, it's kind of a saaa-"

This blobling was new to the world. Newly awakened. Alone. In the desert and seemed very excitable.

And maybe, just maybe, easy to fool. Sheldonna stood up straight on her tail or as straight as she could given the circumstances. "Oh, yous... don't know?"

She tilted her head up slightly and slithered about to get a better spot in the light of the stars. Gotta make this look good.

"This here is the Smiley Sands of Terrea. Yous must be newly awakened. Lucky for yous, you've found the right blobling. Name's Sheldonna. Sheldonna of the Smiley Sands. Yeah, that's right. I'm the ruler of these parts. The head blobling. The boss of the bosses."

She gave a little self-satisfied smirk, then paused. "Uh, I usually gots a bunch of bloblings followin' me around and caterin' to my every whim-like. But they're, y'know, on break right now. Cause I'm such a nice leader and all."

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Sheldonna smirked, looking quite pleased with herself. These newly awakened bloblings - what saps! What suckers! She had it pretty much made in the shade now.

"Oh yeah. Abso-positively-lutely. I couldn't even begin to tell yous how long I've been around cause, y'know, that's how long it's been."

She'd only awakened herself maybe a few weeks ago. Sheldonna was not expecting to be bombarded with so many questions.

She put up her tail in an attempt to try and silence the blobling. "Whoa, whoa. Easy with the questions. And please, no need for the formalities. Yous can just call me Boss. Boss Sheldonna. It's less of a mouthful, y'know?"

Sheldonna pushed some sand up into a pile with her tail and leaned against it. "I can tell yous everything you wanna know, but hey, I'm a busy blobling. Being a leader might look easy, but lemme tell yous something. It ain't. But way I see it... yous and me? We can help each other. Yous do me a few favors, eh? And I-" She used her tail to gesture at herself.

"I'll answer all the questions yous want."

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Sheldonna blinked a few times. "What? Yous doubting me? Why would I lie bout somethin' like dat? I mean, I'm obviously pretty important. I found yous out here in da desert, didn't I?"

She frowned a moment when Blubi mentioned a sun and moon but then immediately asked what they are. She gave a bit of a shrug of her tail. "Beats me. Anyway. Keeping track of da time is for suckers and nerds, and yous don't look like neither of dose."

Her eyes widened slightly at how quick Blubi was to refer to her as boss and so enthusiastically, too! Sheldonna felt more than pleased. Ha! Yeah, that's right. She was DA BOSS.

Her eyes almost started to sparkle when Blubi insisted she should be doing tasks anyway in exchange for "everything she does as leader." Wow. Sheldonna had hit the jackpot with this one.

She wasn't sure what a jackpot was, but...

Wow.

"Y-yeah! Dat's right. Yous learn fast, eh, kid? All right, uh, first task, um... Dere should be dese trees around here somewhere. They got white bark and a bunch of colorful pods on dem. I wantcha to find one of dose trees and gather up as many of those pods as you can and bring 'em back here in a big ole pile."

Sheldonna leaned against the chromilla tree and enjoyed the shade. Perfect. Now, she didn't have to do any work. She smirked and rested her tail behind her head. Soon, she'd be able to start working on her perfect schemes, and noblobby would ever see it coming.

She watched Blubi leave and return, leave and return. It was actually kinda cute how the little blob eagerly bounded over, spit up a few poffdula pods, and then bounded away. She watched the pile of poffdula pods begin to build with a greedy glint in her eye. She paused a moment, thoughtful. Eh, she was sure she could probably wipe off the blobling drool, and noblobby would be able to tell the difference.

She raised an eyebrow at the sparkling, puppy-eyed expression Blubi gave her and focused instead on the pile.

"Hm, yeah, dis oughtta be enough. I tell yous what - I'm a little impressed at yous ingenuity here, Blu-blu. I really wasn't sure yous could handle dis job - being so new to da world - thought I'd have to go the extra mile to get a few of my more competent subjects to help out. But ey, looks like I underestimated yous."

She threw a smile in Blubi's direction. "I'm planning on hauling all of dese back to Onyxia. Big, uh, yous know... Deal. Trade." She waved her tail in a vague sort of gesture. "Yous done a great service to da Boss of the Smiley Sands. I wouldn't want to wear yous out here in da middle of the desert, so I can get my subjects to help me take all dis to da city. No problem."

She gave a laugh. "But boy, lemme tell yous, I'd be REEEEALLY impressed if you'd manage to, oh, I dunno, fashion a big sack out of some poffdula tufts and carried dis all da way to Onyxia with me. Ha-ha. Ha..."

Hint, hint.

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