the lost elf

chapter three

"Conner please stop crying!" i said for the 5th time while holding him like a newborn baby. "tell me what happened Conner please.... Please!"

"the mean guards took Ma and Pa away!" he said still sobbing. "Ma told me to hide and that she would find you then me." he stopped crying. "is Ma and Pa going to come back."

"i don't know Conner, and if they do i don't ever want to leave this family" i said

Conner's brown eyes were red from all of his crying and his dark brown hair was messy from me patting it.

"Tweety Bell" Conner said after a few minutes.

"Conner it's Tweet remember."

"Tweet, who is that in the doorway?" he pointed straight at prince Alistair.

"I'm prince...." he started to say. "he's a lowlife who helped me find you in this mess of things." i cut in, "Conner, there is a guard here could you go and help him with anything that he needs. Can you do that for me?" i calmly said.

"Is he going to hurt me?"

"No. He's very nice in fact." Alistair seemed proud of his statement.

"O-okay." Conner got out if my lap and went up stairs.

"Tweety Bell?" Alistair asked playfully.

"Shut up. So what do you know about this." I gesture everywhere.

"All i know is that my father the king is dead and that an assassin is after me."

"WHAT!"

"the king is dead and a dwarf assassin is after me" he slowly said.

"A dwarf assassin?"i sounded confused.

"he pasted for a really good child."

"okay" i chuckled.

CRASH

"What in the maker was that!" we shouted

Then Conner came running down the stairs trying to hide behind me.

"What happened?" i asked him

"i'm going to kill that little runt " Moe shouted while going down the stairs.

"You won't hurt my little brother" i yelled.

"Can we not resort to violence for once there is a child right here!" Alistair shouted in Moe's face.

"He broke the picture of Ma and Pa so i stomped on his foot." Conner said from behind me.

"Why did you break the picture." i have no tone in my voice, "tell me, now!"

"Why keep someone who is probably dead in glass that will break or burn soon."

I felt my anger rise "You bastard!" I shouted.

I took out my hidden dagger and shoved it right through his skull blood sprayed everywhere. My brother. My little brother Conner, I forgot he was behind me. I ripped out my dagger and put it where it belonged.

"Conner... Don't be scared."i said to him as i turned around. He backed away from me and ran up the cellar stairs crying.

"I can't believe it you killed him." Alistair finally said.