A Ray of Hope

Prolog

     My name is Lilyana, but my friends call me Lily or Cala. My father is the 'chief' or leader of my tribe. Now, my kinda and the other race, humans, have been at war for sixteen generations. You might ask what I am, and I shall answer you with this, I am an elf. Now, not the elf's from the north pole, no, we live in tribes all over the land, but my tribe happens to be in the middle of where our enemies live. So, let's start the story now.

     I blew a soft tune on my wooden flute and my kitten walked up beside me and curled up beside me. I closed my eyes and blew the tune sweeter so that my kitten could fall asleep. It was about nine in the morning, the time I usually play my flute. I felt a stare on me and I ended my song soon.

     "Nice song." My friend, Randal, said to me. He was standing beside the tree I was sitting beside, he was leaning on it.

     "Thanks. So, wanna train or what?" he was my friend, but he always tried to sneak a move on me whenever he thought I was off guard.

     "Sure, meet ya in the field." He said as he walk off to his house to get his knife. I got up and my kitten woke up and followed me to my house. I set my flute down and picked up my sword. I set it back down and grabbed my bow and swung it over my shoulder and got my arrow pack on my shoulder like a satchel. I picked up my sword again and ran outside to the field.

     Randal was waiting for me. I ran up and held my sword up, he held up his knife to me the way he always does when we train. His amber gaze matched my white gaze. He started off with a huff and I darted for him. His knife collided with my sword, to keep his arm in the training game. He did the same move as always and jolted it forward, but I saw it coming this time. I moved my sword to where it cut his forearm and he went down in pain and held onto his forearm where I got him. I held my sword out to him to where it was right at his head.

     "You're too predictable. You do that move every time and you need to learn to expect more. What if I wasn't your friend? You would be dead instead of hurt." I explained to him. I was started to turn into my father when it comes to war.

     "When did you get no fun? You always let me win before today!" He said to me. I squinted my eyes and looked into his eyes.

     "Tomorrow is our first day of training, our parent's war is about to be ours and you're still acting like a child." I said to him as I put my sword away and walked back toward home. My father told me that, but not my friends. Randal was always playing around and had to learn.

     I sat down on my bed and took out one of my arrows and studied the end of it. All of them were homemade and took me hours at a time. I sighed and looked to the side. My kind and the humans had been at war for sixteen generations, and tomorrow, I would be training to keep it up for the seventeenth. My kitten walked in and climbed my bed and sat down next to me. I smiled down to her and she seamed to look at me and say, 'what's wrong' in her eyes.

     "Oh, Kinko, it's just that I want to know how they think of us. What if they think that we did the first attack?" I said to her. Kinko just nuzzled up into my cloths and started to purr. She always cheered me up.

     I sighed and laid down on my bed, Kinko hopping on my chest and sat down with a purr. I petted her head and scratched behind her ears, the way she likes. I closed my eyes and set my hand on my stomach and felt it rise and fall as I was slowing my breathing to a calm pace. Kinko curled up and held onto my fingers as she fell asleep. I opened my eyes before I fell asleep and I starred at the ceiling. The wood had patterns on it and seamed to hypnotise me. I wasn't like a normal elf in my tribe. No, I saw pictures in patterns that others just saw squiggles in. The ceiling and water paters wolf me stories that made me sleep. This time, I saw the story of my mother in this one. I closed my eyes and fell asleep soon.

     In my dream, I opened my eyes and I was in a valley. I looked around and I saw something. I followed what I saw till I could see it fully. It was a human, male, brown hair, eyes that looked black, and what human normally ware. I watched carefully, there was something about that human that seamed to be, hypnotising. Everything seamed to go black, except for the boy. He zoomed in on me, I saw his features better. I felt my heart pound for some reason and I felt like I was having a panic attack. Everything felt so real.

     I jolted my body upright and Kinko woke up too, her fur ruffled and on end. Fear filled my eyes but I looked down to Kinko. What happened? Why did I have that dream? Who was that boy? Nothing made sense to me. I shook my head and Kinko moved her paw and set it on my hand again.

     "I'm fine Kinko. I'm sure it was only a dream." I said to her. she tried to calm me down again and I looked outside, it was already close to dusk. I sighed and got up, Kinko jumped down onto the bed as she waited for me to finish changing into my sleeping cloths. I got under the covers on my bed and Kinko slipped under my arm.

     She purred and I smiled, she got my mind off of the dream. I closed my eyes and listened to Kinko's purring as it went off as she fell asleep and I slowly followed her. This time, I just had a black sleep, no dream, no image, just plain blackness. The way I loved to sleep.