As the Queen of the Heavens, she has traveled through time and space for
nearly ten thousand years. Yet the memory of a love almost forgotten takes
her back to the time of her youth before the magic consumed her soul.
The strange girl walked into the inn silently the room instantly dimming and everyone fell silent. Her mass of red curls covered her elven ears and she sat down without saying anything to any of them. She arranged her long green and gold robes and wondered why it was so silent and the light was very muted. She looked to the ceiling and saw stars spinning slowly with the exact timing of the planet. She blinked and realized it was her fault and snapped her finger and the stars quickly disappeared. She always forgets the stars follow her everywhere whether she likes it or not. Conversation started up again and she sat there silently taking her thin brown spectacles off her face. The Tavern of Lost Hopes had always been the same. She would come in order a drink and stand and leave the stars following her. She always knew when someone was looking at her, or talking ill of the elven girl with curls.
She was sitting in her usual spot drinking a deep red wine, almost the color of blood. It had a bittersweet taste. She was staying there longer than normal, just relaxing and unwinding from her work as an Astrologer in the Temple of White. She was perhaps the most famous astrologer because she had powers as an oracle. She could also manipulate her powers to help her do astronomical things; she could create constellations in her palm, and even add stars to the sky. People mostly called her Lady, or Princess but she isn't a royal. She goes by the name Elaina DawnStar or Lady Elaina.
Koron watched a young girl come into the Inn he had seen her before but never noticed stars following her. He had never seen a elf with long red curly hair, and perhaps he might never. He adjusted the hilt of his sword, and watched her drink the red liquid. His slightly baggy black pants and his tightly fitted black shirt matched the deepest brown hair and his emerald green eyes stood out as much as the elven girl in the tavern. He continued to talk with his companions, every so often his eyes straying over to the girl in the corner. Koron motioned to the bar tender to come over to him.
"What do you need sir." The beefy man bent down a little his smock stained with beer and his ragged hair falling across the side of his face.
"Who is the girl over there in the corner." He looked her direction and the bar keeps eyes went over following his gaze.
"For I am not in the place to say, she pays me to keep her secrets heh?" he stood to full height and went back behind the bar cleaning the numerous goblets and mugs.
"Thank you kind sir." Koron whispered as he left. He said goodbye to his friends as they left the bar some drunk and others sober for they to have hard work every afternoon. A warrior looking for something to do in his life, he lives by his sword and not by anything else.
Elaina finished her wine, in the fancy silver goblet that she also pays to keep only hers. She stands gracefully and goes to the bar keep.
"Thank you, it was very good tonight." She placed three silver coins on the bar and leaned a little closer to the man.
"My Lady, the man over at table four was asking about you." He whispered into her ear as he dried a mug and set it in a cabinet.
"He will have to continue to do so." She said in a rather mysterious voice and she patted the coins on the table. "Thank you again." She turned and left her red curls bouncing and her green robe seemed to float behind her.
Koron stood quickly as the girl walked out of the tavern briskly. "Grivel where is she going?" He said to the bar keeper who was carefully washing her goblet.
"Her business is not my own sonny! Go look for her yourself perhaps?"
"I just might do that." He tossed two gold coins paying for the drinks of his drunken friends plus a little tip. He opened the wooden tavern door and looked quickly along the damp streets. 'Why does it have to be do damn dark.' He thought looking about for the girl
"A little light perhaps might be of good use." Her calm voice washed over him and she snapped her finger a moon appearing dimly in the blanket of black sky. "You seek me out warrior, and I become curious as to why for you have never heard of me."
"No one tells me anything these days." He spun around looking for the source of her voice. "They are all paid by powerful people to shut up."
"Yes, but I am defiantly not powerful, I don't rule a kingdom-well I take that back, I rule something but no one understands it." She beamed she could see him straight on but he had no idea where she was it was quiet amusing. "Tell me warrior what is it you seek out?"
"Nothing in particular."
"Don't lie."
"Who said I was lying?"
"The stars." She blinked and she became visible to the warrior who instantly became surprised. "I know when people lie, I know when people talk about me, I know when the weather changes, I know when people will die, were their life will take them."
"The stars tell you this? Silver specks of light tell you all this? Bah."
"Believe or not." She turned and walked down the alleyway to the main street. She walked briskly and picked up her robes so they wouldn't get dirty from the fair amount of tar, mud and water in the cobblestone streets. Koron ran after her almost slipping into mud, he regained his balance and skidded to a halt.
"Your name?"
"Koron son of Drathen, I am Lady Elaina." She snapped and disappeared fading into the shadows. The warrior stood there. 'The stars tell to much.' He grumbled and looked up the sky, the moon now gone for she has left, and the clouds covered the heavens. He silently went back to where he was staying his father was a fell known mage, but Koron never took interest in memorizing spells and waving about your hands here and there just to make a fire the size of a pinhead. He stepped into the small home and motioned to his father who sat at a desk with graying hair and thin glasses he read a large book labeled "High Sorcery."
"Father do you think it is wise to believe in the stars?" he slid off his shoes and sat down in front of his father.
"Of course, just look at Lady Elaina, look how far specks of light got her! Ho oh she is a smart one." He turned the page not looking up to see how much his only son has grown. "Why a sudden interests my son?"
"Lady Elaina was at the Inn again tonight, and I talked with her."
His father chuckled. "For you talked to the Lady of The Stars, at a tavern where brawls are considered rough housing it? Why do you go there anyways?"
"Father don't change the subject. Anyways she is quite interesting."
"Quite isn't the end of it, she is fascinating, She works for the High Society Mages up at The Temple of White, the elven women should not be tangoed with, and did you see her pendent around her neck or was it covered?" His father flipping the page yet again, his frail fingers bent to a peculiar pose.
"I believe I saw it." Koron redrew a picture of her in his mind remembering what she looked like and wore. He searched the picture and found the pendant. "It is silver, it looks almost like an a cross but all the sides are even as if it fit into a box."
"And the gem in the middle?" His father finally looked up and motioned him to remember more.
"A blue topaz."
"Bah, grow up boy! It was a star gem. If looked at close enough inside the gem there is a small star that moves around inside slowly. The gods give it to the ones they see fit to know their secrets. Many train and pass dozens of tests to revive it, but she walked in one day and talked to Master Arign and he gave it to her from a silver box and said the gods welcome you. It was rather strange for I was there. Good-night my boy." The man stood his old human bones creaking. He closed his book and set his glasses down on the table and moved out of the room. Elaina was probably twice as old as his father yet she still looked twenty human years. Koron smiled to his father and retired to his chambers.
The strange girl walked into the inn silently the room instantly dimming and everyone fell silent. Her mass of red curls covered her elven ears and she sat down without saying anything to any of them. She arranged her long green and gold robes and wondered why it was so silent and the light was very muted. She looked to the ceiling and saw stars spinning slowly with the exact timing of the planet. She blinked and realized it was her fault and snapped her finger and the stars quickly disappeared. She always forgets the stars follow her everywhere whether she likes it or not. Conversation started up again and she sat there silently taking her thin brown spectacles off her face. The Tavern of Lost Hopes had always been the same. She would come in order a drink and stand and leave the stars following her. She always knew when someone was looking at her, or talking ill of the elven girl with curls.
She was sitting in her usual spot drinking a deep red wine, almost the color of blood. It had a bittersweet taste. She was staying there longer than normal, just relaxing and unwinding from her work as an Astrologer in the Temple of White. She was perhaps the most famous astrologer because she had powers as an oracle. She could also manipulate her powers to help her do astronomical things; she could create constellations in her palm, and even add stars to the sky. People mostly called her Lady, or Princess but she isn't a royal. She goes by the name Elaina DawnStar or Lady Elaina.
Koron watched a young girl come into the Inn he had seen her before but never noticed stars following her. He had never seen a elf with long red curly hair, and perhaps he might never. He adjusted the hilt of his sword, and watched her drink the red liquid. His slightly baggy black pants and his tightly fitted black shirt matched the deepest brown hair and his emerald green eyes stood out as much as the elven girl in the tavern. He continued to talk with his companions, every so often his eyes straying over to the girl in the corner. Koron motioned to the bar tender to come over to him.
"What do you need sir." The beefy man bent down a little his smock stained with beer and his ragged hair falling across the side of his face.
"Who is the girl over there in the corner." He looked her direction and the bar keeps eyes went over following his gaze.
"For I am not in the place to say, she pays me to keep her secrets heh?" he stood to full height and went back behind the bar cleaning the numerous goblets and mugs.
"Thank you kind sir." Koron whispered as he left. He said goodbye to his friends as they left the bar some drunk and others sober for they to have hard work every afternoon. A warrior looking for something to do in his life, he lives by his sword and not by anything else.
Elaina finished her wine, in the fancy silver goblet that she also pays to keep only hers. She stands gracefully and goes to the bar keep.
"Thank you, it was very good tonight." She placed three silver coins on the bar and leaned a little closer to the man.
"My Lady, the man over at table four was asking about you." He whispered into her ear as he dried a mug and set it in a cabinet.
"He will have to continue to do so." She said in a rather mysterious voice and she patted the coins on the table. "Thank you again." She turned and left her red curls bouncing and her green robe seemed to float behind her.
Koron stood quickly as the girl walked out of the tavern briskly. "Grivel where is she going?" He said to the bar keeper who was carefully washing her goblet.
"Her business is not my own sonny! Go look for her yourself perhaps?"
"I just might do that." He tossed two gold coins paying for the drinks of his drunken friends plus a little tip. He opened the wooden tavern door and looked quickly along the damp streets. 'Why does it have to be do damn dark.' He thought looking about for the girl
"A little light perhaps might be of good use." Her calm voice washed over him and she snapped her finger a moon appearing dimly in the blanket of black sky. "You seek me out warrior, and I become curious as to why for you have never heard of me."
"No one tells me anything these days." He spun around looking for the source of her voice. "They are all paid by powerful people to shut up."
"Yes, but I am defiantly not powerful, I don't rule a kingdom-well I take that back, I rule something but no one understands it." She beamed she could see him straight on but he had no idea where she was it was quiet amusing. "Tell me warrior what is it you seek out?"
"Nothing in particular."
"Don't lie."
"Who said I was lying?"
"The stars." She blinked and she became visible to the warrior who instantly became surprised. "I know when people lie, I know when people talk about me, I know when the weather changes, I know when people will die, were their life will take them."
"The stars tell you this? Silver specks of light tell you all this? Bah."
"Believe or not." She turned and walked down the alleyway to the main street. She walked briskly and picked up her robes so they wouldn't get dirty from the fair amount of tar, mud and water in the cobblestone streets. Koron ran after her almost slipping into mud, he regained his balance and skidded to a halt.
"Your name?"
"Koron son of Drathen, I am Lady Elaina." She snapped and disappeared fading into the shadows. The warrior stood there. 'The stars tell to much.' He grumbled and looked up the sky, the moon now gone for she has left, and the clouds covered the heavens. He silently went back to where he was staying his father was a fell known mage, but Koron never took interest in memorizing spells and waving about your hands here and there just to make a fire the size of a pinhead. He stepped into the small home and motioned to his father who sat at a desk with graying hair and thin glasses he read a large book labeled "High Sorcery."
"Father do you think it is wise to believe in the stars?" he slid off his shoes and sat down in front of his father.
"Of course, just look at Lady Elaina, look how far specks of light got her! Ho oh she is a smart one." He turned the page not looking up to see how much his only son has grown. "Why a sudden interests my son?"
"Lady Elaina was at the Inn again tonight, and I talked with her."
His father chuckled. "For you talked to the Lady of The Stars, at a tavern where brawls are considered rough housing it? Why do you go there anyways?"
"Father don't change the subject. Anyways she is quite interesting."
"Quite isn't the end of it, she is fascinating, She works for the High Society Mages up at The Temple of White, the elven women should not be tangoed with, and did you see her pendent around her neck or was it covered?" His father flipping the page yet again, his frail fingers bent to a peculiar pose.
"I believe I saw it." Koron redrew a picture of her in his mind remembering what she looked like and wore. He searched the picture and found the pendant. "It is silver, it looks almost like an a cross but all the sides are even as if it fit into a box."
"And the gem in the middle?" His father finally looked up and motioned him to remember more.
"A blue topaz."
"Bah, grow up boy! It was a star gem. If looked at close enough inside the gem there is a small star that moves around inside slowly. The gods give it to the ones they see fit to know their secrets. Many train and pass dozens of tests to revive it, but she walked in one day and talked to Master Arign and he gave it to her from a silver box and said the gods welcome you. It was rather strange for I was there. Good-night my boy." The man stood his old human bones creaking. He closed his book and set his glasses down on the table and moved out of the room. Elaina was probably twice as old as his father yet she still looked twenty human years. Koron smiled to his father and retired to his chambers.