Secondary Characters Speak Out: Q is for Quartz

Quartz sits facing a dwarf that looks exactly like himself, the same beard, the same way of smoothing his beard with thick fingers, the same pensive scowl. His hairy eyebrows shoot up to his hairline at the same time as his double’s.

Quartz: What’s this? What are you? Some of trick of Nimmie Not’s?

2nd Quartz: More like a trick of the Cauldron, thanks to the scribbler melding #BloggingFromAZAprilProject: Character Change with our own ruddy blog. I’m you, pebble brain. Just a reflection of you, here to show you a thing or two.

Quartz: Right. What d’ye think I need showing?

2nd Quartz: The theme is change, right? Ever think of how things will change once Of Cuckoo Clocks and Crystal Coffins is finished? Things are already changing. 

Quartz: So?

2nd Quartz: So you’re no longer a secondary character. How do you expect to keep doing Secondary Characters Speak Out?

Quartz: Why shouldn’t I keep at it? I’m a secondary character who made it as a main character. How inspirational is that, as the scribbler would say. 

2nd Quartz: Right.

Quartz: You’d better believe it if you’re me. We’re in a position to show other secondary characters how to improve their status. How to ask questions, getting them to think of how to improve it. 

2nd Quartz: Uh huh. Has your status improved? How is Of Cuckoo Clocks and Crystal Coffins going?

Quartz: Never liked that title…it’s going. 

2nd Quartz: We never liked that ruddy cuckoo clock. With good reason.

Quartz: Nimmie Not and his clever tricks, bah. What really bothers me is that crystal coffin. 

2nd Quartz: All our lives we’ve loved stones and rock. Look where it got us. 

Quartz: That coffins was supposed to heal our Fairest. 

2nd Quartz: It did. There were consequences which came back to bite us, something we should have been ready for. 

Quartz: Aye, we should have. I blame the scribbler. She didn’t do her research on rocks and made us all look stupid. 

Me: (mutters) I’m doing my best. There’s a lot to learn and considering how ignorant I was, it takes time to learn it all.

Quartz: That’s time we don’t have. Get with it, scribbler.

2nd Quartz: That’s right, get with it! 

Me: (sighs) I had to create two of them for blogging purposes…

Both Quartzes: What was that?

Me: Never mind.