Ruins scattered the ground, all made out of black stone. Once they had been a large temple which was honour the gods that the elves worshipped but it was destroyed by the armies of the other two kingdoms and the Silver Stars. The destruction of the temple changed the elves forever with half the population turning into dark elves and their nation forced to live in hiding from the peoples of Vailiania and Fallean.

Bellethiel and Lucia approached to thrones that stood in against a black wall. While Lucia held Kalian against her chest still, Bellethiel bowed clumsy to the two figures “greetings my goddess Laraniel and king Naruon” before she could say more she heard the king sigh slightly.



Naruon’s eyes fixed on Bellethiel with anger for he could see Kalian out of his the corner of his eye. He snarled at her “with what right do you stand before me like you are kin to me. Only through your sister you still live and now you bring a human child before me, I have told you before that I can hardly afford for are kingdom to exposed. Do I have to tell you why this is so again?” she blushed for she knew that all to well for Naruon had explained it to her in detail.



A small laugh came from the goddess after Naruon had finished speaking to Bellethiel “Naruon she is one of my subjects after all I am the leader of the wood elves of Elevnia. Why have you decided to bring this human child before us?”



Naruon arose from his throne to look at Lucia for he was unsure what to thing of Lucia for doing this. “my former advisor is holding a member of a race that have tried to kill us?” Lucia said calmly to him “how could this child know of that, if we raise my king she could be used to our advantage and also we commanded to look after this child. If you do not approve my king then I shall summon humans from Fallean to look after her then” silence as both Naruon and Laraniel thought.



He closed his eyes and thought. Naruon had been the crowned prince of Elevnia before the destruction of the black temple that caused his skin to turn white and his hair to darken. After his transformation he had been left atop a tower, for dead for he was feared by the leaders of Fallean for his own existence. Since then he had become king of the dark elves that had also been transformed into dark elves.



Before he could say anything more Laraniel stood from her throne “we have lived so long with fear of humans. Since I have been queen I have not desired the blood of the child. I say to you my king and lord, let this human live until her sixteenth year then if you wish you can slay her but until then you spare her of your wrath” silence followed her words.



Naruon walked away from with a contented smile to Lucia and look of distrust towards Kalian “very well then, I will take my leave of you. The girl may stay with us but one sight I see of a human assassin that comes for me, I will hunt her down with or without the goddess’s blessing. Laraniel come to my palace when you have a moment we have pressing matters I wish to discuss and Lucia I offer you your place back a court” he continued walking with the stunned gaze of Lucia following him.



Lucia folded her arms with annoyance of the king’s comment but she would accept his offer “why does he want me back in his court after a year of being no longer a member of his court. He himself ordered me to leave for my foolish sister’s safety” a small laugh came from the goddess.



Laraniel held a flower in her hands and smiled with a sorrowfully voice told them “do you know how I came to be here? Once I was in a place where light was darkness and not even the light of the sun could make me slumber. For years I was there but no more I shall say of that place for if it was it would mean the end of us all. I managed to escape them, I was found by a party of your kin who carried on their shields your wounded king. Also unless you have not noticed Naruon likes you Lucia” she giggled to see Lucia blush.



Before she could say anything more Bellethiel embraced her telling her softly “thank you my goddess though I do not know why you spare these dark abominations.” Laraniel whispered coldly in her scaring her slightly as she said to “darkness and light are one in the same but if you planning some sort of villainy against the dark elves then I will make you it will be the last you shall do in this life” Bellethiel realised her embrace.



She had to dash to keep up with her dark elf sister as she walked away with Kalian in her arms but as she left she called Laraniel “one more thing that I must tell you, a man Amisius by name told us raise the child” Laraniel vanished in a flash of green light. She had thoughts that raged inside of her for Amisius had not been seen by her or heard off for many years, she wondered what would happen if this child was given to them as a gift from him.



When they were both out of range and she was sure that she could not see Naruon anymore, she blew the flower sending it seeds flying on the wind before whispering to herself “Amisius, Amisius the god of the sea. It seems like my thoughts that most of the gods are free once more but foolishness as I have seen that vile island before it disappeared. How many of us are free now? Amisius is playing a dangerous game for if they were to find us they will capture us or worse. For now I will take my time with what little hope I have for those villains of brotherhood of the silver stars” she sighed and then vanished for she needed to think on what is best for her to do.