Vaile

Kendra II

The Glen dining hall was basically a hall of majestic birch trees lined up so close together they made a wall, and their branches reaching to the sky like a cathedral roof. Around her sat her family, her father, Orrick the Lion-Hearted, her twin sisters, Maebel and Ravenna, her niece, Snow, and her brothers, Guthix, Zamorak, and Sardomian, and her second daughter, Tamblinn.They all looked like any ideal Elven Royal Family would, heart shaped faces with prominent cheek bones, ivory skin, piercing grey eyes, but the only differnces between them was the fact that some had raveny-purple hair, and that others had silver, well, and Ravenna's strawberry curls.

On the table was frosted winter fruits, exotic stuffed peacock, suckling pig, and honey cakes, but nobody ate except for the men, and Maebel-who just played with her pork.

"Why are we all just sitting here?" Tamblinn asked Kendra, who was her mother's spitting image

"Because they think that sitting around starving is a proper way to mourn family." Guthix said sarcastically, prompting a gentle shoulder punch from Zamorak.

"That's no way to talk about Mom!" Ravenna yelled abruptly.

"And Cherokee!" Maebel added.

"And Aislinn." Kendra added softly. Snow gently put a hand on her shoulder, a soft smile on her lips, her silver bangs hanging around her face.

"Aislinn's alive." Snow reassured again.

"She's alive. I saw her in a dream yesterday." Sardomian added.

"Family ties. Strong tracking magick, almost as good as Runes." King Orrick said gruffly, his voice withered from his roaring battle years.

"Grandad! Again with the Runes?" Tamblinn whined.

"Runes are always right." He said nonchalantly.

Soon the conversation drifted from Runes to Black Magick, which lead to Laverna- the Evil Tyrant sorceress ruling over the human populus.

"She's wicked." Zamorak said blatantly.

"I think she's kind of got it right." Ravenna muttered.

"What did you say?" King Orrick repeated, almost shaking with rage. Laverna was a touchy topic amongst most elves- especially King Orrick, who lost his right eye in the Battle of Heirs, trying to steal her daughter. True, he succeded, but that was when he lost his wife, Queen Lacewood.

"I think she is a good ruler for those filthy humans." Ravenna said angrily.

"GET OUT OF THIS ROOM!" Orrick bellowed, shaking the chandelier.

She glared at him and rushed out of the room before he could smite her on the spot.

Kendra ushered Tamblinn out of the room, and everyone else dispersed very quickly.