Lillyanna of the forest ...Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1
The cold air stung her face. If only the snow would melt and she could enjoy the green. She loved spring it was her favorite season. The birds teaching their hatchlings to fly, flowers blooming, and spring was when the fairies woke. She could tell them anything and they would listen with open hearts and open minds. She had been at the castle keep of lord Balinoph a wizard of the most obscure nature all her life. She was 90 years old. To a human this would seem old but she was an elf and still very much a young girl. Hardly even concidered an adult . Her days filled with learning the art of magic and nights felled in deep study.
The wizard said that she was an elf. She had never seen anyone who looked anything like her so this only served to confuse and anger her .all the questions she had .what happened to her parents ? Did she have siblings? Are there other elves out there? If so why had she never seen them? All these questions and more filled her head as she sat by the frozen lake that cold afternoon . "What are you doing out here my hatchling ? " . The old one always called her hatchling. To him he was saying young one. That was just the way of dragons; It was Kixisz the resident gold dragon .He was in his polymorph form of a human. This was part of the magic that all dragons had naturally ;he often chose this form when teaching. However it always made him feel vulnerable to be in the form ,so it never stuck for too long. He helped lord Balinoph guard the keep and teach other wizards like her .These teachings would last a life time as they all went out into the world to help or hurt it mattered not .The only thing that mattered was that they learned to control that which burned in there blood. The magic. "You scared me Kix, I am well ." She let out a sigh "now , now hatchling. You know you cannot lie to me. What is the matter with you ?you seem so distraught. " His eyes seemed to bore into her soul. Those same eyes always seemed to ascertain anything that was wrong with her . That was just the way of dragons . With such a long life span they could easily since when things were wrong with those of other races ." Buy all the gods holy you do know me old one." She said with a smile ."Do you not know anything of my family ?" the old dragon chuckled to him self ."Always the same questions. Never quite satisfied with the same answers. I have told you all I know hatchling however if you still seek the truth I will tell you." As he stepped back away form her she could feel the ground ,the trees, even the very sky pulse with the power of the great worms magic. It filled her soul and made her feel whole . She let the magic fill her completely . Let it be all that existed in her . Let it be her . Then there was nothing . As she opened her eyes every thing was so clear. The light filled her eyes .It burned and seemed to sting nonstop . Then standing before her was the most exquisite gold dragon .Elegant and regal as he was he still posed a formable foe . "Let us fly and I will tell you." "Alright I don't have lessons tell later . "
The great gold dragon leapt to the air . As his wings thrust him forward she could feel the wind in her hair and the sun on her face. As they soared through the air he told her of how he and the wizard had found her as a baby in her dead mothers arms . He described every detail down to the color of her mothers eyes and even the amount of blood that was pooled at her feet . He never mentioned her killer ,and she never asked. She just figured that it was too bad of a memory .the old one and her mother were famed to be the best of friends .Non of this unnerved her however .For she had heard it many times before . She missed her mother so. How strange that you could miss someone you have never met . Nevertheless, miss her she did. If only she could have met her. None of that mattered now . All that mattered was her magic. Learning it and letting it quench the fire that burned forever in her soul.
The flight home to the keep was quiet. Silence saying more then words already spoken. The ground came up fast, too fast. She new the figure standing in the landing yard was balinoph . She did not relish the lecture she new was coming. " Just what in the abyss do you think you were doing ? The screaming had begun She knew that the wizard meant well but this time he had gone too far she was with kix and that time to her was cherished as gold ,for he was too often away on business for the eccentric old wizard." Your studies are all that matter. Nothing and I repeat nothing is more important then the magic ." He scolded at her . "Well are you going to answer me or not ?she would not give him the benefit of the fight he wished to have she was in a great mood . " Well shalaphia I was contemplating my existence in beep meditative study ." oh the gods give you grace for lying" he spat " .that bird over the wall story does not work on me any longer and you know it . " Now lillyanna do not make me ask as your teacher ,I am still asking as your friend. What were you doing? "She had, had enough of his mothering. She was an adult and would not take it any longer " I wanted to ask kix about my mother ! Ok? Or is that wrong ?so I can't have feelings I cant wonder what she might have been like? Gods I don't even truly know what it is to be an elf!!" I will teach you. "He had cut her off this was aggravating. " I know the ways of elves better then you think." Do you human ?" she had turned the table on him and used his owe weapons against him ." can you teach me to be me ? She realized that she was yelling and gods did it feel good to get it off her chest. "NO!!" she continued in her rant . "So do not profess to know me you child steeling hypocrite . " Now ,now ,young one we are only trying to help and teach you" Kix had cut in ,trying to divert the Childs anger from his old friend …Before he could go on her angered words had cut him off. "And you kix! A dragon should know better than to mettle in the affairs of humans and the lying and thieving they do .I hope you all rot in the tomb of Geoffrey the betrayer and are never granted the glory of gracing paladin's side . "She took a deep breath and just before lord Balinoph could interrupt her she began again. " you will never see me again . I will flee this place as quickly as I can . I ask only that you not follow me and you do not attempt to stop me . Or by all I hold wholly and dear I will kill you both ." The look in her eyes a told the two old friends that if she could not follow through with her threat she would give her life trying . As she ran up the stairs to pack her things, the two friends conferred with one anther ,over the distraught young elf maiden and what to do with her . "Well ,this was not unexpected .she was going to flee at some point fulcrum ,it was only a matter of time ." SH! Do not mention that name around here . If she herd you and started asking questions …well I do not know what we would do. She can never find out that I am lord fulcrum and you are really puff .she can never associate us with Geoffrey the betrayer .must his deeds and choices always haunt me? " No fulcrum "kix said contently "your lies are what hunt you not the deeds of others. " the look in the old dragons face bore through his soul worse then melfs acid arrow . " Your choices and your actions fill you .do not blame your friend for your misguided mistakes ,tell your niece the truth about you and her .tell her what you did to her mother. Tell her every thing .confess and free your soul." Fulcrum let out an exasperated sigh "well that's just not going to happen she will just have to find out the truth for her self. I will not be the one to hurt her. " "But you already have with all your lies . Can you not see pass your own nose far enough to tell that she would be less hurt if it came from you. Are you that stupid or is it that you are that selfish to believe that she wont be mad at you either way?" His answer came in such a quite voice that if kix had been anything other then a dragon he would have to have asked him to speak up ." I know that you are right puff …or do you prefer kix? I will write her a letter today and I will sneak it in her pack before she leaves. I will tell her the truth about everything ,her mother ,her father ,and her sister, all of it . Thank you for helping me to see passed this stupid human mind that I am currently stuck with."
Later sitting in his private office ,Fulcrum began to pen the letter that could very well have been his own doom. He began
My sweet loving Lillyanna ,
How do I begin to express all that needs to be said to you ? Let me begin by telling you I love you. I need to start with my heritage .Lilly my sweet I and the brother of Grephononthalossa your father. Yes dear one this not only means that I am myself an elf but that I am your uncle. You want to find your mothers killer …well you need not look any farther that this very letter . I am her killer. I will tell you that what was done to her were done justly .She was a whore and a tramp. She was selling her self to any race of men as long as they could pay she gave them what they wanted. She was very delusional and she was violent. I killed her to save your life . She tried on more then more then on occasion to kill you and that last time if I had not stopped her she would have succeeded in her vile task.
Now on to a better topic . You father was a great man . He loved you with all his heart .he wanted only the best for you. He wants off to find work to help to provide a better life for you. He was young and so very naive . He was but 90 the same age you are now . All he wanted was to be an actor. He could not find work around the palace and thought of my offer to hire him as mere charity .so he struck out on his own to find the famed players of Gilleen. If he made it or not I do not know. The last that I herd the players were in Palanthis. They were performing for the head of the Solamnic knights. You might think to start there if you wish to find him . This all the help that I can offer you .I hope that it helps you all that it can .Finally to answer one of long standing questions. You have a sister ,her name is kittyanalonthalassa .she is at the moment a knight of Takisiss and currently your enemy .please do not seek her out I love you too much to lose you to the likes of her. With that I will leave you to your journey gods speed and good luck .may paladin go with you and guide your path.
I love you my sweet niece ,
Uncle Fulcrum Alontia guardian and ruler of Alorious
Fulcrum knew that the letter would only pose more questions then answers .At least she would have some of the answers she whished for. He finished the letter with his personal seal ,a falcon flying abreast with a kingfisher .this showed his alliance to the Solamnic knights. The respect that he held for them stood unmatched for 200 years .no other elf was as trusted by the knights hen he . Yet he knew deep in his heart that this was a trust that teetered on a razors edge. He had for the last 50 years been moonlighting under the name of lord Balinoph to train young knights of Takisiss .Helping them with they're magic and fighting skills and homing them in to true fighting tools .Tools that Takisiss herself would be proud to use.
Though this letter could blow the cover that the girdle of humankind had provided him ,he had to tell her the truth of who he truly was .she had to know . That singal fact was all that mattered . He rushed down the cold and quiet stairs of his writer palace retreat . He found the room that Lilly always used empty and bare but for her open pack. She must have gone to the kitchen for provisions .he quickly suck the letter that he just wrote in the pack and at the last minute before leavening reached out on to the terrace and plucked a single white rose from her bush and added it to the pack as well.
CHAPTER TWO NEXT WEEK ON OR AROUND FRI.
The cold air stung her face. If only the snow would melt and she could enjoy the green. She loved spring it was her favorite season. The birds teaching their hatchlings to fly, flowers blooming, and spring was when the fairies woke. She could tell them anything and they would listen with open hearts and open minds. She had been at the castle keep of lord Balinoph a wizard of the most obscure nature all her life. She was 90 years old. To a human this would seem old but she was an elf and still very much a young girl. Hardly even concidered an adult . Her days filled with learning the art of magic and nights felled in deep study.
The wizard said that she was an elf. She had never seen anyone who looked anything like her so this only served to confuse and anger her .all the questions she had .what happened to her parents ? Did she have siblings? Are there other elves out there? If so why had she never seen them? All these questions and more filled her head as she sat by the frozen lake that cold afternoon . "What are you doing out here my hatchling ? " . The old one always called her hatchling. To him he was saying young one. That was just the way of dragons; It was Kixisz the resident gold dragon .He was in his polymorph form of a human. This was part of the magic that all dragons had naturally ;he often chose this form when teaching. However it always made him feel vulnerable to be in the form ,so it never stuck for too long. He helped lord Balinoph guard the keep and teach other wizards like her .These teachings would last a life time as they all went out into the world to help or hurt it mattered not .The only thing that mattered was that they learned to control that which burned in there blood. The magic. "You scared me Kix, I am well ." She let out a sigh "now , now hatchling. You know you cannot lie to me. What is the matter with you ?you seem so distraught. " His eyes seemed to bore into her soul. Those same eyes always seemed to ascertain anything that was wrong with her . That was just the way of dragons . With such a long life span they could easily since when things were wrong with those of other races ." Buy all the gods holy you do know me old one." She said with a smile ."Do you not know anything of my family ?" the old dragon chuckled to him self ."Always the same questions. Never quite satisfied with the same answers. I have told you all I know hatchling however if you still seek the truth I will tell you." As he stepped back away form her she could feel the ground ,the trees, even the very sky pulse with the power of the great worms magic. It filled her soul and made her feel whole . She let the magic fill her completely . Let it be all that existed in her . Let it be her . Then there was nothing . As she opened her eyes every thing was so clear. The light filled her eyes .It burned and seemed to sting nonstop . Then standing before her was the most exquisite gold dragon .Elegant and regal as he was he still posed a formable foe . "Let us fly and I will tell you." "Alright I don't have lessons tell later . "
The great gold dragon leapt to the air . As his wings thrust him forward she could feel the wind in her hair and the sun on her face. As they soared through the air he told her of how he and the wizard had found her as a baby in her dead mothers arms . He described every detail down to the color of her mothers eyes and even the amount of blood that was pooled at her feet . He never mentioned her killer ,and she never asked. She just figured that it was too bad of a memory .the old one and her mother were famed to be the best of friends .Non of this unnerved her however .For she had heard it many times before . She missed her mother so. How strange that you could miss someone you have never met . Nevertheless, miss her she did. If only she could have met her. None of that mattered now . All that mattered was her magic. Learning it and letting it quench the fire that burned forever in her soul.
The flight home to the keep was quiet. Silence saying more then words already spoken. The ground came up fast, too fast. She new the figure standing in the landing yard was balinoph . She did not relish the lecture she new was coming. " Just what in the abyss do you think you were doing ? The screaming had begun She knew that the wizard meant well but this time he had gone too far she was with kix and that time to her was cherished as gold ,for he was too often away on business for the eccentric old wizard." Your studies are all that matter. Nothing and I repeat nothing is more important then the magic ." He scolded at her . "Well are you going to answer me or not ?she would not give him the benefit of the fight he wished to have she was in a great mood . " Well shalaphia I was contemplating my existence in beep meditative study ." oh the gods give you grace for lying" he spat " .that bird over the wall story does not work on me any longer and you know it . " Now lillyanna do not make me ask as your teacher ,I am still asking as your friend. What were you doing? "She had, had enough of his mothering. She was an adult and would not take it any longer " I wanted to ask kix about my mother ! Ok? Or is that wrong ?so I can't have feelings I cant wonder what she might have been like? Gods I don't even truly know what it is to be an elf!!" I will teach you. "He had cut her off this was aggravating. " I know the ways of elves better then you think." Do you human ?" she had turned the table on him and used his owe weapons against him ." can you teach me to be me ? She realized that she was yelling and gods did it feel good to get it off her chest. "NO!!" she continued in her rant . "So do not profess to know me you child steeling hypocrite . " Now ,now ,young one we are only trying to help and teach you" Kix had cut in ,trying to divert the Childs anger from his old friend …Before he could go on her angered words had cut him off. "And you kix! A dragon should know better than to mettle in the affairs of humans and the lying and thieving they do .I hope you all rot in the tomb of Geoffrey the betrayer and are never granted the glory of gracing paladin's side . "She took a deep breath and just before lord Balinoph could interrupt her she began again. " you will never see me again . I will flee this place as quickly as I can . I ask only that you not follow me and you do not attempt to stop me . Or by all I hold wholly and dear I will kill you both ." The look in her eyes a told the two old friends that if she could not follow through with her threat she would give her life trying . As she ran up the stairs to pack her things, the two friends conferred with one anther ,over the distraught young elf maiden and what to do with her . "Well ,this was not unexpected .she was going to flee at some point fulcrum ,it was only a matter of time ." SH! Do not mention that name around here . If she herd you and started asking questions …well I do not know what we would do. She can never find out that I am lord fulcrum and you are really puff .she can never associate us with Geoffrey the betrayer .must his deeds and choices always haunt me? " No fulcrum "kix said contently "your lies are what hunt you not the deeds of others. " the look in the old dragons face bore through his soul worse then melfs acid arrow . " Your choices and your actions fill you .do not blame your friend for your misguided mistakes ,tell your niece the truth about you and her .tell her what you did to her mother. Tell her every thing .confess and free your soul." Fulcrum let out an exasperated sigh "well that's just not going to happen she will just have to find out the truth for her self. I will not be the one to hurt her. " "But you already have with all your lies . Can you not see pass your own nose far enough to tell that she would be less hurt if it came from you. Are you that stupid or is it that you are that selfish to believe that she wont be mad at you either way?" His answer came in such a quite voice that if kix had been anything other then a dragon he would have to have asked him to speak up ." I know that you are right puff …or do you prefer kix? I will write her a letter today and I will sneak it in her pack before she leaves. I will tell her the truth about everything ,her mother ,her father ,and her sister, all of it . Thank you for helping me to see passed this stupid human mind that I am currently stuck with."
Later sitting in his private office ,Fulcrum began to pen the letter that could very well have been his own doom. He began
My sweet loving Lillyanna ,
How do I begin to express all that needs to be said to you ? Let me begin by telling you I love you. I need to start with my heritage .Lilly my sweet I and the brother of Grephononthalossa your father. Yes dear one this not only means that I am myself an elf but that I am your uncle. You want to find your mothers killer …well you need not look any farther that this very letter . I am her killer. I will tell you that what was done to her were done justly .She was a whore and a tramp. She was selling her self to any race of men as long as they could pay she gave them what they wanted. She was very delusional and she was violent. I killed her to save your life . She tried on more then more then on occasion to kill you and that last time if I had not stopped her she would have succeeded in her vile task.
Now on to a better topic . You father was a great man . He loved you with all his heart .he wanted only the best for you. He wants off to find work to help to provide a better life for you. He was young and so very naive . He was but 90 the same age you are now . All he wanted was to be an actor. He could not find work around the palace and thought of my offer to hire him as mere charity .so he struck out on his own to find the famed players of Gilleen. If he made it or not I do not know. The last that I herd the players were in Palanthis. They were performing for the head of the Solamnic knights. You might think to start there if you wish to find him . This all the help that I can offer you .I hope that it helps you all that it can .Finally to answer one of long standing questions. You have a sister ,her name is kittyanalonthalassa .she is at the moment a knight of Takisiss and currently your enemy .please do not seek her out I love you too much to lose you to the likes of her. With that I will leave you to your journey gods speed and good luck .may paladin go with you and guide your path.
I love you my sweet niece ,
Uncle Fulcrum Alontia guardian and ruler of Alorious
Fulcrum knew that the letter would only pose more questions then answers .At least she would have some of the answers she whished for. He finished the letter with his personal seal ,a falcon flying abreast with a kingfisher .this showed his alliance to the Solamnic knights. The respect that he held for them stood unmatched for 200 years .no other elf was as trusted by the knights hen he . Yet he knew deep in his heart that this was a trust that teetered on a razors edge. He had for the last 50 years been moonlighting under the name of lord Balinoph to train young knights of Takisiss .Helping them with they're magic and fighting skills and homing them in to true fighting tools .Tools that Takisiss herself would be proud to use.
Though this letter could blow the cover that the girdle of humankind had provided him ,he had to tell her the truth of who he truly was .she had to know . That singal fact was all that mattered . He rushed down the cold and quiet stairs of his writer palace retreat . He found the room that Lilly always used empty and bare but for her open pack. She must have gone to the kitchen for provisions .he quickly suck the letter that he just wrote in the pack and at the last minute before leavening reached out on to the terrace and plucked a single white rose from her bush and added it to the pack as well.
CHAPTER TWO NEXT WEEK ON OR AROUND FRI.
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