Darkness of the Woods

Chapter 2

Elfrida

The truth is....Elfrida doesn't hate her family. Though it might seem like it at times, especially to them. It's only...she feels disgusted, disappointed in them, at the very least, that they have not chosen the true path. The path that will save her world from turning away from their Gods, especially from the Goddess Ethel, who has promised them salvation if they follow Him. After all they are sinners.

At least, that is what she and many others were told, and believe. He told them this. He told Elfrida this personally. He told her that the Gods want them all to do some cleaning up, to fix the wrongs of their kingdoms of Welenta. Excuses the lowness of this comment. That it is their job to get rid of those who turned away and those who do not follow him. Exterminate them, the ones that try go against them.

    Elfrida would be more than happy to help her family to turn to the right path, she tells herself this all the time. But she knows that they would not listen.

She knows them too well.

Elfrida's parents had already made their positions clear when they had joined the military, her mother as a doctor, and her father as an important military leader. And Elfrida's siblings plan to follow in their footsteps. Already, Albern has joined the Velent military that her father is a part of. Velent is the continent, and this military is an entire army of five kingdoms' people that chose to fight together instead of apart. Of course each kingdom has its own army, but this one is separate, it has more of a full reign of all of the kingdoms on the Velent continent. So, anyways, no, Elfrida does not hate her family.

She pities them.

She hopes for them.

She prays for them.

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"Come on, Elfrida. I don't want to be late." Akili said in Sy, anxiously looking around Elfrida's new room.

    Elfrida looked around too, wondering what her sister thought about it, then again not caring about her opinion either. The room was simple. It had light pale blue walls and dark brown wooden flooring. The door that led to the hallway was in the wall next to the daybed and already had blue sheets on it, all neatly made and everything. There was an elegant dark brown vanity table across from the door with an attached mirror.

Right next to it the table was a wardrobe with the same dark wood, still empty of clothes. There was a door on the same wall as the other door, but it stood in between the bed and the first door, that led to an attached bathroom. There was also a bookcase that stood across from the bed. And the only thing she had brought with her beside the boxes, was a chest that sat between the two doors.

    Maybe simply isn't the right word for it, more like devoid of life. At least, it had until they had brought in boxes of Elfrida's stuff. The boxes were still all over the room just begging to be unpacked and the bed hadn't been slept in since they had gotten here the day before. Now it seems so full of hope for the possibility of a new life to live in its walls.

    Except for the color of the walls.

The color was just too ugly in her opinion. Sigh.

Elfrida looked at the wall color in distaste, but in all fairness the room was not too bad despite the wall color. In fact this room was bigger than her room back home, which she had to share with her sisters. This one she gets all on her own. Yay!

     Akili saw the look on Elfrida's face. She said, with sympathy, shaking her bright white hair at her sister, thinking that it's about them being there, "Ju va, fin laven ju no inva no unla ah il in vinet fun." Which translates as 'you know, just because you don't unpack doesn't mean we will go back home.'