~Chapter 4

The girl in shock from what she has just done. At this she immediately looked down to the floor again hanging her head in shame.

"Please forgive me your highness." Said the girl. Not once did she look away from her chosen spot on the floor. She was much too afraid to insult or offend the prince any further.

"Why did you look away? Do I repel you human?" Nuada said with a bit of spite. At this the girl looked up and saw that his face held a look of slight hurt (if it was even possible).

"NO no no your highness! You do not repel me at all." The girl said as she frantically tried to make sure he knew that she didn't think him repulsive. When she went to put her hand on his shoulder, she stopped herself at the last second and quickly took her hand back.

Nuada saw the girl going to put her hand on him, then at the last second she took her hand away before she touched him. When he looked back into the human girls eyes he saw many things. There was nervousness, slight fear, curiosity, and something more akin to not knowing what to do. What he also noticed was the uniqueness of her eyes. They seemed normal if you didn't look right into them. But once you actually do, you see colors of blue, green, brown, with an odd rusty auburnish gold surrounding her pupil. The color of that alone was odd in itself for the fact that it was a similar color to that of the elves.

"Girl what is your name? Your whole name." He asked. He stood there waiting for her to answer. When he asked the question she seemed to tense up a bit. From the look on her face she is thinking of whether or not telling him.

"My name? Why would you want to know my name your highness?" She asked as she again looked down at the floor.

"That is for me to know and for you not to know." Nuada said with an air of annoyance about him. The girl finally looked back up and sighed herself.

"My name, your highness, is Deannette, Deannette Davis." When she said that Nuada could not recall any of the elven blood lines having any relations with any human with the last name of Davis.

"well then, miss Davis, care to tell me why you keep staring at the floor as if it was some sort of art work?" Nuada asked as he sat back on Deannette's top bunk bed. He folded his arms and had his eyes on her waiting for her to explain herself.

Deannette fidgets a little under the princes gaze as she tries to get her thoughts together. "Well your highness, I am looking at the floor instead of at you because I haven't the right to look you in the eye. So by default I look at the floor with my eyes down casted." Deannette explained. She then stepped back and sat down on the floor near the glass but not exactly on it.

As the girl sat down Nuada noticed that she moved away as far as she could without having to be on the glass from the broken window. ~why is she so adamant on showing me so much respect, even for a human, when most other humans would try to make themselves look fierce and more powerful than us elves?~ "Miss Davis?"

When Deannette heard Nuada say her name she looked up and made sure she wasn't looking him in the eye. "Yes your highness?"

"You are going to join me and leave this pathetic place." Nuada ordered. At this he noticed that a flash of anger came and went through the girls eyes. ~so she has trouble being ordered around. She does have backbone then.~

Deannette bit the inside of her cheek to try to help her from yelling at him for being a moronic man. Well actually male but that doesn't matter right now. "And why should I just do as you say your highness?" She flinched as she heard the clipped edge to her tone. "If you recall, Prince, I have a life here and I do not find going and following you to fit in well with my future plans."

Nuada smirked and within a blink of an eye was right in front Deannette holding her chin so she had to look him in the eye with no other choice. "I find myself intrigued by you. You show respect then when given an order you repel and stand your ground. You do not seem to stick to your kinds usual form of manners. Quit the opposite really. You WILL come with me and you WILL help me in all I need. You simply have no other choice. Of course unless you priffer to be killed where you stand that is." Nuada smirk turned dark when he saw the fear and realization of her position sink into her thoughts. A few breaths later she nodded her head and a heart beat later they were nowhere to be seen in or on the campus.