She looked down at the honey comb that she just collected, and smiled. Honey would taste great with the new sweet she was trying to create. She put it in her bag, and then began to wring out her long mahogany hair. In order to collect the honey she had to dive in a small pond to avoid the dozens of bee stings she would've gotten. It was worth it though. If Lawnia had one true passion in life, it was cooking. She loved creating new and interesting dishes, to her it was fascinating.

She turned, happy with what she had collected for the day, and started back to the village. She was a 16 year old elfin girl, who lived in a small village in faron woods. She was tall, with tan skin, exceptionally pointed ears, and brilliant wide green eyes. She wore a simple brown dress that tied in the center with plain brown strap. She was barefoot, not needing shoes in the soft green grass. However, she was terribly shy. When she was out in the woods, she felt alive, confident. Around other people, however, she was silent. Her older brother constantly teased her about it, and even though she felt anger towards him, she never acted on it.

She sighed heavily, thinking of her brother, when she heard a strange sound. It was… laughter? It sounded hoarse and dry, very peculiar. No one else that she knew of went this far out into the woods. Curiosity getting the better of her, she slowly walked towards the sound. She moved away some branches of a bush, and peeked out. Her eyes widened, she gasped and collapsed to the ground in shock. It was a… demon. She started shivering in fear, and she slowly made her way the opposite direction, when a memory flashed in her mind. It was her brother, constantly teasing her about how she would never do anything courageous in her life. Even though her little sister tried to comfort her whenever this happened, it was something he had always said. She took a deep breath, then turned around.

When she peeked through the bushes again, she saw the camp. It was just outside the sealed grounds, the camp even making its way down into it! There were multiple huts, a few demons casually walking around. She also saw watchtowers, and made a mental note to watch out for those. She focused her attention on the demons in front of her, and listened in.

After listening in for a minute, she realized they weren't talking about anything important. Her eyes wandered and she saw much larger demons gathered a few feet away, arguing. They looked important, she thought, and began carefully making her way over. Still hidden by the bushes, she strained her ears for what they were arguing about. She couldn't hear them well enough. She looked around, and spotted another large bush a few feet away, closer to the arguing demons. Looking quickly around her, she summoned her fragment of courage and sneaked over to the bush. When her heart stopped pounding she realized she could hear them, and listened in.

They were talking about battle plans. While most of the war words were foreign to her, she tried to retain as much information to later tell her village. So far she picked up rummage…arrows…

"HEY!" she whipped her head around, and saw a demon staring at her, pulling out his horn. She had been so focused on listening to the conversation she had forgotten to watch her back! He blew the warning signal on the horn, and without a second thought she ran.