Enchanted forest

Chapter 4

 “Sir may I be allowed to speak?” I asked referring to him as sir and using all the formal crap I had been seeing Tom use all these years, at the thought of Tom my throat tightened but I fought back the memories and anguish for later as I couldn't really show any weakness if I wanted not to be thrown in the dungeon and called traitor. As I waited for the king to speak I thought of the reason for why I was doing this, I hadn't really believed in destiny before so did I think it was actually worth it? The answer to that question disturbed me. I didn't know.

“Yes you may” The king answered with a closed expression, all the anger towards his son had disappeared and surprising me enough his aura changed colour in a way, it stopped being the blinding sun and turned to be something more bland, like the knights. So when elves were trying to hide their expressions they hid behind an enchantment shield, good to know.

“I can prove to you that I am the Daughter of the Forest”

“Can you now?” He said amusement slightly colouring his tone, giving me a hole in his enchantment shield, diving through it (not literally) I saw colour there and could feel the ice that was his fear, he was afraid I might overthrow him. The king was afraid of me! I wanted to jump up and down in euphoria and at the same time I wanted to crawl underneath a table and die of fright. Instead I looked at him (not defiantly at all as a part of me was still morbidly afraid.)

“I believe I can”

“Show me then” He said gesturing with his hand, I took a deep breath tasting the enchantment around me as I flew up a couple of metres and then I started flying around doing flips in the air close to the walls and ceiling. I was enjoying myself greatly and I had even forgotten the challenge as I started laughing and screaming in delight, at that point everything else seized to exist as I dived and picked up height again, then seeing the potted plants in the windows I gestured once and they bloomed fabulously, all while I enjoyed myself like never before, I wanted to do this forever but after about what I guessed were 5 minutes Maglor cleared his throat bringing me back to reality and I landed on my feat next to him as every single cell in my body tingled with euphoria. “The girl is good, she didn't get tired after ten minutes of using her enchantment non-stop” The king much to my surprise looked astonished, and Maglor seemed to catch up on this too.

“So you recognise she's the Daughter of the Forest?” He asked the king directly

“Yes, she is most definitely the Daughter of the Forest but she needs to learn to use shields and how to use her magic properly before she can be of any use to us.” He then turned his head to look at me in the eyes “I can feel your ecstasy from here, can't you shield your enchantment girl?”

“I don't how to and I wouldn't like to know, I don't like hiding behind a shield, if I'm happy I don't really care if other people can see that, or feel it in this case” I got a breath to steady myself and then launched myself straight for suicide, “and my name is Leyla, not girl.” For saying that I got an amused expression from Maglor and a furious expression from the king, he covered it fast. Then I noticed that I could see through the shield without even having to look for gaps, I could see through it like glass, I could see his red anger, white fear and pink something, I couldn't really feel it from here because he had it blocked, I had to figure it out so I needed a hole, a thought crossed my mind and I knew how to make him gasp for breath.

“As you wish” He said still with that cold expression.

“Why are you angry at me? And why do you fear me? I have done nothing wrong that I know of.”

“Who told you I was afraid?” He said a little shocked, not nearly enough though, without thinking about it I went straight to my plan that would mean getting the king very, very angry.