clank
Clank
Her hammer blows again and again, dark fog emminates with every strike. Her skin, pale and knicked from things and truths that have happened in that coal mine, is smothered so lovingly by coal dust. A furnace blazes majestically a few humans away from her, the heat seethes her bare arms and the right side of her face, as if the constant hammering did not exhaust her yet.
The irony is that coal mines need cold hard labour. Something that she thinks is the only way to get bread and bed. Under the unforgiving sun and in the winter that froze her tears, her hammer went
Clank
Clank
She paused, her breath uneven and desperate. Her eyes shut as she tried to damp the vibrations in her body - inhale, exhalee. She let her hammer slide down her hands and hit the floor, but this time it clanked differently. Stronger. More metal-y. Her eyes fluttered open, confused at that sound. She picked up the hammer and hit it again. Same sonor.
Adrenaline filled her in, what could it be? Her mind pulsated with an assortment of possibilities while she striked again and again and again and again.
Strike
Strike
Strike
A small glimmer hit her eyes. It’s something you could’ve missed if you blinked your eyes, but even with her bad vision she saw it. The hammer blowed harder, her exhausted body regained energy with that one glimmer. Harder. Stronger.
And there it was. A gorgeous diamond rock, reflecting the furnace light sat right in front of her. Fora moment she just took it all in, her mind silent and heart beating fast. She leaned in and cleared the debris Surrounding it, and picked it up gently in her hands. Her eyes sparkled at the gem as she turned it around her dusty fingers, careful at not polluting it. She closed her palm around it taking in the damp coolness before she slid it into her pocket. A diamond in the coal mines. The rarest of rare phenomenas to occur, and luck had been on her side. She clutched that rock whenever she could, holding it and reminding her that when things get dark, a glimmer of light is all you need.