A Tale of the World **HIATUS**

Chapter 58: Elvairian

The entire time Nina's soul was out of her physical body, completely unconscious, she was unaware that an elf was tending to her every need. Kaiser Meldrid, was the name of the elder elf attending to her. On the day he brought her into his small cottage home that rested upon a hilltop, he wiped her down and switched her clothing to keep her from getting a cold. As he switched her clothing, he noticed the amulet and ring around her neck. After staring at the amulet for some time, he resumed changing her clothes. After replacing her clothes, he examined her body once more, closely at the scars. He sighed softly as he lifted her hand into his, holding her gently by the wrist, with his thumb pressed over her pulse. He then casted a healing spell over her. After healing her wounds, he went over to where her head laid and placed his palm over her forehead.

"Forgive me for intruding, young one," he apologized.

In doing so, he looked into Nina's memories, seeing everything she saw, feeling everything she felt, pain, anger, happiness, laughter, love and loss. He also saw faces of those he never thought he would see again in her memories. After looking through all of her memories, Kaiser sighed sadly, "You been through so much, haven't you?"

***

In the 'middle', when Nina created the barrier and the mark on her lower back glowed, it also glowed on her physical body back on earth. That dawn, noticing the faint sensation of unusual magic energy flowing in the air, Kaiser rushed back into his cottage from his mini garden. As he cautiously entered his cottage, he looked over to Nina who was still lying down on his bed. However, there was a glow that surrounded her body as she emitted soft magic energy, filling the room. In the 'middle', when Nina poured her energy into the tree and opened Heaven's Gates, back on earth, an explosive wave of magic energy poured out from her, spreading across the land, letting others in the land know of her presence. Her body glowed even brighter as she began levitating off the bed, creating a pillar of light that could be seen from miles away that early dawn before the sun was up. The starlight colored glow wrapped around her entirely as he hair flowed upwards as if she was sinking down in water. As another wave of energy pulsed through her body, the scar-like birthmarked blossomed into a glowing tree with the stem running down her spine with the branches and leaves wrapping up to the back of her neck, her shoulders and mid-back towards the side of her body. Kaiser was covering his face, squinting his eyes to see what was happening.

As he stood his ground with the wild wind surging within his small cottage, rampaging through all of his belongings, he saw teardrops stream down from Nina's face as the wind finally began dying down. The pillar of light and the glow around her body slowly diminished as her levitating body was laid down gently on his bed. Silence filled the air for a brief moment. Kaiser then suddenly heard chattering noises from outside his cottage and rushed out. What he encountered shocked him.

Outside his very doorstep surrounding his cottage were animals and magical creatures of all sorts. Squirrels, birds, rabbits, foxes, wolves, nymphs, etc. His eyes widened when he saw a particular creature make its way to his door step. As this creature walked towards him, the other creatures and animals opened a pathway for it to walk through. As the creature reached Kaiser, he bowed his head to greet the creature. The Sacred Beast, the white stage. It was large in comparison to a regular stag, standing as tall as a moose. Its fur and antlers were as white as snow with no hint of impurity as it glistened with the rising sun's light.

What am I supposed to do now? Now everyone knows she's here, Kaiser thought to himself.

***

Around noon that day, the animals and creatures continued to linger outside Kaiser's cottage, waiting, as a messenger from the palace made his appearance as well. Knocking on the doors of the cottage, Kaiser opened the door, exited the cottage and closed the door behind him.