The Lost Elf Warrior

Chapter Eleven

CLARITY

The doors to Glassandra chambers open up; the knight lead me into the room as I found Glassandra sitting down on the comfy sofa wearing a light blue dress and her hair pinned up.

"Your, Grace" The knight bowed his head after dismissing himself. I smiled with my head high at Glassandra as the doors was now shut leaving Glassandra and I alone.

"How has your morning been Clarity?" Glassandra asked me as I sat down on the comfy sofa. She start to pour us a cup of mint tea for us both.

Ever since I got here, Glassandra has been the most welcome and kind person I have meet upon her walls. Unlike her brother I see Glassandra as a loyal friend that we can be.

"It's been... refreshing I can say" I said nodding to myself.

"I saw you training out there" Glassandra said narrowing her head to her balcony.

"Oh" I answer picking at my nails.

"No one has fighting like that in years or should I saw decades it feels like. Since-" Glassandra said, I then cut her off knowing who she was going to say.

"-Since my mother" I said with a nodded. I am not wrong when I said that, my mother told me to fight fire with fire and when she disappear, I told myself I would train to be the bravest and hunt like a prey I would be.

"I was a little girl when I saw that auburn hair women fighting in that training yard. My mother and father was good friends with her" Glassandra told me. I wet my lips as I look up at Glassandra. Her mother and father knew my mother. No, it can't be true. Mother- my mother is not an elf and so am I.

"I'm sorry to say this but I don't believe that my mother was an elf, it could be anyone of your kind with auburn hair" I said shaking my head in disbelief. I don't believe that my mother is, was an elf; if she were, she would have told me.

"I know you don't believe that your mother might have been an elf" Glassandra took both of my hands as we both made eye contract as Glassandra spoke to me.

"But I have faith in the Gods that she is and so are you" Glassandra told me looking me straight in my violet eyes, looking back into her blue ones. I took a sip of the hot mint tea as the hot steam hit my throat.

"I don't have elf pointy ears like you and the rest of your people" I said in a whisper looking down at my lap then back up. I feel my eyes starting to get glossy, but I refuse to let them fall.

"Some elf ears take years to grow. And you have the elf mark" Glassandra told me. Even with a mark of a leaf doesn't mean that I am one of them, I have never felt like I have been accepted so why should I accepted this life changing that found me?

"It's just a leaf mark, nothing more" I said drying my tears before it can slip down my face.

"It's not just a leaf mark, Clarity" Glassandra told me.

"Every elf that was born with that mark. If your mother has that mark, then so would you. You are a warrior like me, your mother and everyone else" Glassandra said. She was right for one. I have always felt like a warrior ever since I was a child I would go into the forest and feel free, running wild and when I got my first bow and arrow it felt like out of a story when mother use to read to me before I when to bed.

"Then we better find her and get the answers we need" I said nodding my head that held high.

"That is why I called you here" Glassandra said slipping a map onto the table. I took a sip out of the mint tea before I put back down and examined the map in front of me.

"They have been so many whispers over the years, some have tracked down but found nothing" Glassandra told me as I look down at the map curiously.

"Have you asked around?" I asked looking up at her quickly before looking back at the map. Glassandra sigh to herself.

"No. It's too dangerous to asked mythical creatures of our kind if they see them. The demon elves find out quickly, we fear them and if they have taken spies from other kind" Glassandra explain. I run my finger over the river where it says the black lake was written on it.

"What about the black lake?" I asked Glassandra.

"We have not looked there. Actually, you might be on to something. The demon elves can't cross or go into rivers or lakes, it's deadly to them" Glassandra said looking me up with a hopeful smile rise from her lips.

"So?" I asked smiling hopefully.

"So, we can ask the sirens in the black lake" Glassandra said. We finally got a lead at last.

"Great, when can we leave?" I asked standing up straight ready to go and look for my mother and find her to bring her home.

"I was hoping for you to stay in the walls, and I would send my bravest warrior there" Glassandra said. I sigh. I understand why but I want to do something instead of people to do what my mother's mess she made.

"I appreciate Glassandra, but this is my mother. I know her and I want to find her by going out there it will help me find her quicker" I said. I look at Glassandra to see her smiling still at me, she's not mad or upset at all; Glassandra nodded.

"Alright, you leave at tomorrow dawn. But I'll have to send one of my strongest warriors with you" Glassandra said I nodded lightly but had a curious look on who will join my quest.

"Who?" I asked her. Glassandra sight.

"My brother" Glassandra answer.

Oh no.