chapter 4
The next time I woke up it was like a different world, my hearing was
clearer than I ever thought imaginable, my eyesight was much better too.
Swinging out of bed I ran to the mirror down the corridor, skidding to a
halt I realised that I ran much faster than possible. I peered in the mirror
looking for physical change, but I looked as normal as a girl with luminous orange hair. With a sigh I walked into my room slowly. When inside I went to the boarded up window and tried to look through a crack in it. Outside it was bright outside and I could hear birds singing. I looked around for my clothes and found the bundle at the foot of my bed. After quickly dressing in a tunic and breaches a jumper and the new pair of boots I left the room in search of something to do. Just outside the door I walked into the young girl from before. She glanced at my pants and frowned. 'Kevin said to show you to the kitchens.' she said nervously. I smiled at her 'You still don't think im evil do you?'
She smiled at me 'No not really, but my mother does.'
'Oh! Mothers usually love me!' I said im mock surprise. The two of us laughed and talked the rest of the way to the kitchens. We went out a door opposite the one ones I first entered and a came to another huge hall full of beds and people. A couple of women screamed and ran away when they saw me but that was the extent of the fearful reactions. A young women with a small blond child walked up to us, she was wearing all black and had red puffy eyes. 'Oh great lady I thank you for slaying that that killed my husband. I hope you help rid us of the monstrosities that plagues our land furthermore.' With a bow the young women turned and smoothly walked through the quiet, unmoving crowd. Without a word I continued to walk through the great hall. When we got to the end of the hall we proceeded through two doors into another grand room. Instead of beds this room had tables and chairs. The people in this room also stared at me with suspicious, unblinking eyes. The young girl brought me to the end of a line for food and we waited trying to act oblivious to the stares. After getting our food we sat at a solitude table and ate. 'Why do they keep staring? What do they want?' I asked in an undertone. The girl opposite me frowned slightly 'To see what everyone is talking about and if you could really be a threat.' I sighed and turned around to look at a group of approaching children. When they got close to us the slowed the smallest struggled away from the arms of her bigger brother and skipped towards us. The hole hall help there breath as if waiting for me to strike the child. 'hello' said the girl, her pink cheeks shone through the mud on her face. 'do you have any stories to tell us?' she looked at her friends for approval. 'well' I said hesitantly, 'I know some, but you might already know them.' the girl smiled at us 'Mamma always said that everyone has a different twist to their stories.' the words seemed odd coming from such a small girl, but I smiled. 'Ok ill tell ye all a story.' I said. The girl climbed onto the seat beside me, her legs dandling over the side. Her friends all sat around the table making them selves comfortable. I stopped and thought of an old story to tell when the face of the old man waved across my vision, with a smile he vanished. A story I had never heard of suddenly popped into my mind and with a frown I started to tell the story.
'Once upon a time there was a wealthy king. The king had all he wanted but was still not happy. Soon the greedy kings kingdom became poor, and the people hungry. The kings wife was just as greedy, she had everything she wanted except for a baby to call her own. One day the greedy queen had a beautiful baby boy, but the baby cried and cried and she soon gave him to a nurse to mind. The nurse minded the baby until he became a boy, she shielded him from there greed and showed him what greed and injustice could do. The boy soon grew into a young man and the nurse was no longer needed. On the day of his sixteenth birthday the nurse left, the boy was summoned for by the king and told he would have a new tutor who would teach him how to run the kingdom. A week later the kings old teacher Greador came to the palace. Greador thought him many things, he thought him of the elves and there ways and about magic. Half a year later the greedy queen died. The king feared that he too would die soon and asked Greador to bring the prince to the cities to find a proper wife. They travelled to every city in the kingdom, but they could not kind a suitable bride. Soon they turned to the elvin cities, in the first two cities they found none that were right, but in the last city the prince say a fair maiden at the edge of a market and fell in love with her straight away. This did not please Greador as he hoped the prince would choose his daughter. He tried to persuade the prince that the girl was not suitable as she was just a smiths daughter. However the smith was one of the finest elfin smiths in Pangaea and his fine merchandise pleased the greedy king so he allowed the prince to marry the girl. Three days before the prince and his wife had a baby the greedy king died. The kingdom rejoiced that they had a new king and for the new baby. The baby was a boy, born half human and half elf, with a mixture of the races features and some magical powers. He was called Pela.'
