Koron went west disbanding from the crowd of commoners and walked though
the dense forests. He stopped on an over looking hill and glanced down at
the burning city, he saw the stars fall and he looked underneath the Temple
Of White, seeing a glowing green body which he instantly knew was Elaina. A
black figure stood next to her not bothering on casting, and Koron tried to
figure out why not. But he had the same beliefs at Arign that only a god
can defeat a green dragon. He turned and left his sword clinking as he
walked along dodging the trees outstretched branches.
"Elaina we must go, there are six of them here and you are pretty much sneezing on them with star fall, and there is the whole god damn army behind them!" Taiss grabbed her wrist trying to break her of the spells hold. Her eyes glowed white and her staff held sturdily in her hand bursted with blue light. She kept keen eye on all the dragons circling the city and incasing the buildings with flames. But a swift wind blew past her causing the black mage to stumble a little backwards releasing his grip on Elaina. She stood there the wind whipping though her long locks of ruby curls, and her robes being thrown about around her. The blue tassels on the end of her long scooped sleeves bellowed in the wind. "Elaina if we don't go right now we are going to be killed, if not by the dragons it will be by the hand of evil."
"And you Taiss Son of Rothand are not evil yourself? For you generate evil spells and you are a black mage that deals with Hades."
"Elaina trust me these intruders are probably more evil than me, which I could doubt impossible but that is besides the point." Taiss blinked quickly trying to avoid more on the subject, he leaned on his oaken staff becoming bored with standing there doing nothing. "Elaina just come on! Cant we just fight evil and save the world another day?"
"In time mage you will understand the way of the gods."
"Elaina just come on, stop messing around." The girl smiled big, she enjoyed tormenting the dragons but decided it was best to stop because Taiss was growing impatient. The stars stopped falling and the sky lightened a little but was still covered with gray clouds. She grabbed a hold of Taiss's robes and he smiled down at her. Taiss slammed his staff on the cobblestone street and thought of the Old Aspen Inn where they were meeting Koron. And soon enough their they were in front of the old inn that was built in a small Aspen tree. Taiss led the girl in and saw Koron sitting down already his ale half empty.
"You made haste warrior I must say I am surprised." The bar tender rushed around the bar and stepped in front of Taiss in effort to stop him.
"No black Mages in this here inn, I wont allow trouble to arise." The tall lanky man stood a little shorter than Taiss himself. Taiss pushed back his shoulder length brown wavy hair and leaned on his staff Elaina somewhat behind him.
"No need to be scared Bar Tender, my magic wont do harm anyways, because right now I have none flowing though my elven veins as of now." The bar tender stepped back in defeat.
"And I am supposed to believe a black mage?" He leaned forward the top of his head just below Taiss's nose.
"You are because I took it from him for my own use." Elaina pulled down her cape hood, her red curls bounced lightly.
"Lady Elaina, pleasant to see you again." He bowed then returned behind the bar.
"I would like a room for my friends and I." She shouted back to him as he nodded. She sat down next to Koron and Taiss across the table from her. "Now where do we go from here Taiss?"
"I can't tell you, the Black Halls gave me very strict instructions not to tell anyone." He put his head in his palms and Koron sipped his ale leisurely. Elaina on the other hand picked though Taiss's mind hearing thoughts about the mission.
'Go to the Blue Tower, retrieve the staff of Nutras and return to the black halls, kill anyone who interferes.' She thought to herself. 'Well I am going to interfere so already he has broken one law, and Koron he interfered, and the staff of Nutras isn't around anymore so its physically impossible and the Blue Tower is over eight thousand miles away! To be exact it is 8,645 miles from The Tower of White.
"Lady Elaina." She snapped out of her trance and turned to the source of the sound when the bar tender called her name. "Your room is ready miss." Elaina nodded and stood the others following in pursuit. "Second room on the left miss." The bar tender returned behind the bar.
"Elaina, stop picking at my brain would you. Even though I tell you I cant say anything you insist on entering my thoughts and sorting everything I know until you get what you want." Taiss turned the brass doorknob and took out the key sending Elaina a mental thought.
"Its not my fault you cant keep anything inside your own head." She walked into the room and sat down on a chair in front of a small fireplace
"Excuse me! It is my head with my thoughts, I don't pick yours!" Taiss stopped at the doorframe and let Koron pass who had no idea this whole conversation was even going on. "Then how did you know I was picking though your head Taiss?" she glanced into the low fire and crossed her legs under her robes, and carefully placing her head in her palms her elbows resting on her knees. "You were picking though my brain again weren't you? Lets just face reality for a moment love, we can't keep secrets from each other."
Taiss rolled his eyes and shut the wooden door, then walked to the window passing Koron who was sitting on a bench at the foot of the bed. He opened the curtain to let a little light pass though; even though he preferred the dark he knew Koron would go crazy without light. "Elaina how can you be so- so seductive when we chat like this?"
"Its my job hun, and look at Koron here, he doesn't know what's going on, its like shouting in an open room with a billion people telling them your worst fear and them not even hearing you."
"I hope you guys don't mind but I am going to go look around."
"Sure Koron just be careful there is probably more danger here even though the armies are going east." Taiss didn't turn from the window until Koron had shut the door behind him and there was a soft click embedded in the metal lock. "And what might your fear be angel of the stars?" Taiss turned quickly his long curled brown hair sweeping past his face and his long black robes rustled around his ankles. Silence still filled the room. Neither one of them has spoken a word outside their heads. "Your own power scares the living hell out of you doesn't it Elaina?"
"Not like you need to know." She stood abruptly and casted a stone glare at him.
"Elaina." He finally spoke his voice echoing softly between the barriers of the wooden room. "Elaina." He repeated stepping towards the girl. She was still nineteen, younger than he would ever be in any immortal life him still living at twenty-four. "You and I don't age and our powers keep growing. Your soul of power has been born millions of times each one stronger. Your magic will continue to grow-."
"I know what it does Taiss, I have lived this life before."
"Perhaps. Have you ever considered each time your reborn it is the starting point of magic. Right now you are nineteen the magic still has--"
"Taiss stop it." She whirled around to look at the human who had forever to live with his magic. His immortality would be on going because of his bond with hell. She longed to be stationary for one moment. But her life was different, each step her magic grows stronger consuming her soul, every time she is reborn she starts all over again, hopefully this is the last life she will live and the gods may finally release her from their grasp letting her live a normal life.
"Elaina, I'm sorry." He broke the on going silence and wrapped his robed arms around the girl that stood before him. "I didn't mean for you to get angry, I know how it hurts to think about remembering one life to the next."
"No you don't but I am not going to continue talking about it." She said her voice muffled in his robes. She looked up holding tears from her emerald eyes. He placed his slender hand on her chin and kept the other wrapped softly around her waist and leaned down to kiss her lightly on the lips. She almost fell for it but then pulled out of his arms and turned back facing the door blushing. She couldn't do it, She couldn't kiss the man she loved because she knew the gods would frown upon it, and then she would never fulfill her life task for them to release her. Elaina's life was far more complicated than most would presume. Taiss stood still his arms still hanging where Elaina pushed them out of the way, then he dropped them to his sides.
"I understand Elaina."
"Do you?" She turned to stare at him again his face emotionless as it normally was. "Do you really understand why I want to be let go of this life? I want to be normal! I want to be a normal sorceress and live a life that I can love full heartedly."
"You know you still could do that. The gods don't mess with your love life you know." He dropped his voice into a whisper pulling her close again. "You can freely love me as you would love a man who would die when he was ninety."
"This is like a fairy tale tome, the archangel of the heavens falls in love with the evil spirit that lurks though death." She sighed and pressed her body into Taiss's robes and gave into the love she had kept locked up in a container the color darker than a moonless starless night. "Except I doubt it will end happily ever after." She whispered.
Koron walked eagerly though the woods trying to find something to do! What was a warrior supposed to do on a mission with a beautiful girl who loved another man, and the man was an evil wizard. Koron's thoughts were simple. Why would they need his help anyways if they ever needed it in the first place? The warrior trudged around in a gloomy state thinking his presence wasn't really needed and he shouldn't have followed Elaina and Taiss into this whole thing. He was acting like a child running after a stranger who had a bag of candy. Koron stopped at a clearing and sat down on a rotting stump. The sun was dipping below the horizon now but no one could see for the cloud cover was so thick. Koron thought he better be getting back, he could hear Taiss now screaming at the top of his lungs looking for him. Koron hadn't even known Taiss that long and was already feeling as if he had known him for years. He entered the inn and sat down grabbing a mug of ale and drank it gingerly. Once he was finished he walked to the room and opened it with the key he had grabbed off the small table before he left. The lock clicked open and the room was now dark, the sun past the horizon. He shut the door and noticed Elaina curled up on the bed, her robes neatly piled on the floor next to her bag. She was dressed in breeches and a white tunic. Taiss was asleep on the chair next to her his hand wrapped gracefully around her wrist. Koron could make out the soft steady pattern of the girl's breathing. He took off his shoes and sat down in a chair close to the fireplace were Elaina had been sitting earlier and he quietly drifted off into a restless sleep.
"Elaina we must go, there are six of them here and you are pretty much sneezing on them with star fall, and there is the whole god damn army behind them!" Taiss grabbed her wrist trying to break her of the spells hold. Her eyes glowed white and her staff held sturdily in her hand bursted with blue light. She kept keen eye on all the dragons circling the city and incasing the buildings with flames. But a swift wind blew past her causing the black mage to stumble a little backwards releasing his grip on Elaina. She stood there the wind whipping though her long locks of ruby curls, and her robes being thrown about around her. The blue tassels on the end of her long scooped sleeves bellowed in the wind. "Elaina if we don't go right now we are going to be killed, if not by the dragons it will be by the hand of evil."
"And you Taiss Son of Rothand are not evil yourself? For you generate evil spells and you are a black mage that deals with Hades."
"Elaina trust me these intruders are probably more evil than me, which I could doubt impossible but that is besides the point." Taiss blinked quickly trying to avoid more on the subject, he leaned on his oaken staff becoming bored with standing there doing nothing. "Elaina just come on! Cant we just fight evil and save the world another day?"
"In time mage you will understand the way of the gods."
"Elaina just come on, stop messing around." The girl smiled big, she enjoyed tormenting the dragons but decided it was best to stop because Taiss was growing impatient. The stars stopped falling and the sky lightened a little but was still covered with gray clouds. She grabbed a hold of Taiss's robes and he smiled down at her. Taiss slammed his staff on the cobblestone street and thought of the Old Aspen Inn where they were meeting Koron. And soon enough their they were in front of the old inn that was built in a small Aspen tree. Taiss led the girl in and saw Koron sitting down already his ale half empty.
"You made haste warrior I must say I am surprised." The bar tender rushed around the bar and stepped in front of Taiss in effort to stop him.
"No black Mages in this here inn, I wont allow trouble to arise." The tall lanky man stood a little shorter than Taiss himself. Taiss pushed back his shoulder length brown wavy hair and leaned on his staff Elaina somewhat behind him.
"No need to be scared Bar Tender, my magic wont do harm anyways, because right now I have none flowing though my elven veins as of now." The bar tender stepped back in defeat.
"And I am supposed to believe a black mage?" He leaned forward the top of his head just below Taiss's nose.
"You are because I took it from him for my own use." Elaina pulled down her cape hood, her red curls bounced lightly.
"Lady Elaina, pleasant to see you again." He bowed then returned behind the bar.
"I would like a room for my friends and I." She shouted back to him as he nodded. She sat down next to Koron and Taiss across the table from her. "Now where do we go from here Taiss?"
"I can't tell you, the Black Halls gave me very strict instructions not to tell anyone." He put his head in his palms and Koron sipped his ale leisurely. Elaina on the other hand picked though Taiss's mind hearing thoughts about the mission.
'Go to the Blue Tower, retrieve the staff of Nutras and return to the black halls, kill anyone who interferes.' She thought to herself. 'Well I am going to interfere so already he has broken one law, and Koron he interfered, and the staff of Nutras isn't around anymore so its physically impossible and the Blue Tower is over eight thousand miles away! To be exact it is 8,645 miles from The Tower of White.
"Lady Elaina." She snapped out of her trance and turned to the source of the sound when the bar tender called her name. "Your room is ready miss." Elaina nodded and stood the others following in pursuit. "Second room on the left miss." The bar tender returned behind the bar.
"Elaina, stop picking at my brain would you. Even though I tell you I cant say anything you insist on entering my thoughts and sorting everything I know until you get what you want." Taiss turned the brass doorknob and took out the key sending Elaina a mental thought.
"Its not my fault you cant keep anything inside your own head." She walked into the room and sat down on a chair in front of a small fireplace
"Excuse me! It is my head with my thoughts, I don't pick yours!" Taiss stopped at the doorframe and let Koron pass who had no idea this whole conversation was even going on. "Then how did you know I was picking though your head Taiss?" she glanced into the low fire and crossed her legs under her robes, and carefully placing her head in her palms her elbows resting on her knees. "You were picking though my brain again weren't you? Lets just face reality for a moment love, we can't keep secrets from each other."
Taiss rolled his eyes and shut the wooden door, then walked to the window passing Koron who was sitting on a bench at the foot of the bed. He opened the curtain to let a little light pass though; even though he preferred the dark he knew Koron would go crazy without light. "Elaina how can you be so- so seductive when we chat like this?"
"Its my job hun, and look at Koron here, he doesn't know what's going on, its like shouting in an open room with a billion people telling them your worst fear and them not even hearing you."
"I hope you guys don't mind but I am going to go look around."
"Sure Koron just be careful there is probably more danger here even though the armies are going east." Taiss didn't turn from the window until Koron had shut the door behind him and there was a soft click embedded in the metal lock. "And what might your fear be angel of the stars?" Taiss turned quickly his long curled brown hair sweeping past his face and his long black robes rustled around his ankles. Silence still filled the room. Neither one of them has spoken a word outside their heads. "Your own power scares the living hell out of you doesn't it Elaina?"
"Not like you need to know." She stood abruptly and casted a stone glare at him.
"Elaina." He finally spoke his voice echoing softly between the barriers of the wooden room. "Elaina." He repeated stepping towards the girl. She was still nineteen, younger than he would ever be in any immortal life him still living at twenty-four. "You and I don't age and our powers keep growing. Your soul of power has been born millions of times each one stronger. Your magic will continue to grow-."
"I know what it does Taiss, I have lived this life before."
"Perhaps. Have you ever considered each time your reborn it is the starting point of magic. Right now you are nineteen the magic still has--"
"Taiss stop it." She whirled around to look at the human who had forever to live with his magic. His immortality would be on going because of his bond with hell. She longed to be stationary for one moment. But her life was different, each step her magic grows stronger consuming her soul, every time she is reborn she starts all over again, hopefully this is the last life she will live and the gods may finally release her from their grasp letting her live a normal life.
"Elaina, I'm sorry." He broke the on going silence and wrapped his robed arms around the girl that stood before him. "I didn't mean for you to get angry, I know how it hurts to think about remembering one life to the next."
"No you don't but I am not going to continue talking about it." She said her voice muffled in his robes. She looked up holding tears from her emerald eyes. He placed his slender hand on her chin and kept the other wrapped softly around her waist and leaned down to kiss her lightly on the lips. She almost fell for it but then pulled out of his arms and turned back facing the door blushing. She couldn't do it, She couldn't kiss the man she loved because she knew the gods would frown upon it, and then she would never fulfill her life task for them to release her. Elaina's life was far more complicated than most would presume. Taiss stood still his arms still hanging where Elaina pushed them out of the way, then he dropped them to his sides.
"I understand Elaina."
"Do you?" She turned to stare at him again his face emotionless as it normally was. "Do you really understand why I want to be let go of this life? I want to be normal! I want to be a normal sorceress and live a life that I can love full heartedly."
"You know you still could do that. The gods don't mess with your love life you know." He dropped his voice into a whisper pulling her close again. "You can freely love me as you would love a man who would die when he was ninety."
"This is like a fairy tale tome, the archangel of the heavens falls in love with the evil spirit that lurks though death." She sighed and pressed her body into Taiss's robes and gave into the love she had kept locked up in a container the color darker than a moonless starless night. "Except I doubt it will end happily ever after." She whispered.
Koron walked eagerly though the woods trying to find something to do! What was a warrior supposed to do on a mission with a beautiful girl who loved another man, and the man was an evil wizard. Koron's thoughts were simple. Why would they need his help anyways if they ever needed it in the first place? The warrior trudged around in a gloomy state thinking his presence wasn't really needed and he shouldn't have followed Elaina and Taiss into this whole thing. He was acting like a child running after a stranger who had a bag of candy. Koron stopped at a clearing and sat down on a rotting stump. The sun was dipping below the horizon now but no one could see for the cloud cover was so thick. Koron thought he better be getting back, he could hear Taiss now screaming at the top of his lungs looking for him. Koron hadn't even known Taiss that long and was already feeling as if he had known him for years. He entered the inn and sat down grabbing a mug of ale and drank it gingerly. Once he was finished he walked to the room and opened it with the key he had grabbed off the small table before he left. The lock clicked open and the room was now dark, the sun past the horizon. He shut the door and noticed Elaina curled up on the bed, her robes neatly piled on the floor next to her bag. She was dressed in breeches and a white tunic. Taiss was asleep on the chair next to her his hand wrapped gracefully around her wrist. Koron could make out the soft steady pattern of the girl's breathing. He took off his shoes and sat down in a chair close to the fireplace were Elaina had been sitting earlier and he quietly drifted off into a restless sleep.