I should introduce myself now that I got you all excited (maybe). My name is Arien, and its just Arien. My horse's name is Sila, as you probably already know. I am an elf. An elf has elvin features of course, like glowing in dark places as a symbol of light, being able to see things clearly in the distance. An elf has pointed ears, and pale features, and is always clean and pure, and of course, elves can speak elvish. My horse is an Elvin horse. An elven horse is just a regular horse, except they glow and communicate with elves as well.
Anyway, this all started when I was asking some people why there weren't any of my kind around anymore.
I asked one person and they just starred at me then asked, "What is your kind".
"My kind is an elf"
"An elf, you say?"
"Yes, why?"
"Nothing" the person answered. The person ran off, and started talking to someone. That someone flashed me a suspicious glance then left the place.
"What was that all about?" I wondered.
A few minutes had passed, and everything went quiet, then all the people went to their rooms all at once, like someone rang a bell saying it was time to go to bed. I was extremely confused. Then it felt like the whole place had gone cold. I shivered. I felt someone or something breathing behind me. I turned around and there was that creature starring at me. I started backing up cause the creature was so close to me. The creature started walking towards me as I was walking backwards, and then it stopped. It opened its cloak and took out a long jagged sword. I was really frightened by then. But my instincts told me to take out my own sword and fight it. But as usual I went against what I was told to do. I took out my sword all right, but then, I ran. I ran passed the creature and out the door.
I ran to the stables where Sila was. I packed everything on her in a hurry. I guess she noticed I was in a frenzy and being frantic, and she could probably sense my fear, so she didn't get all fussy like she usually does. I mounted her and galloped off. I looked back over my shoulder, and I could see the creature mounting its own horse (if you could call that a horse, it was basically a big horse skeleton wit strips of cloth and skin hanging off of it) and riding after me! That's where you came in.
It was chasing me right into the dark forest. So I found a bush and hid Sila and me in it, and waited for the creature to come. It came and left. So I mounted Sila and rode out of the forest.
I was out of the forest finally. But I was still confused about the whole thing, I started to just sit in my saddle and think about what had happened and form a plan, when Sila raised up on her hind legs neighing, almost bucking me off, hit the ground, and bolted. I didn't know what had gotten into her. So I looked around and saw it. There were five of those creatures chasing us! So I told Sila to ride hard! She bolted back towards the forest, I had no idea what she was doing, but I decided to go along with it.
We went back into the forest and found a clearing. I thought to myself, "maybe if I make a fire, the creatures will be scared and go away, because some animals are scared of fire". So I decided to take the chance. I told Sila to stop so I could make a fire. She stopped reluctantly and let me dismount. When I had dismounted I ran for some bushes. I quickly gathered some twigs and put them in a pile. Then I grabbed some flint out of Sila's pack and started making a fire. I added more and more twigs till it was a goodly size fire. Then after about a minute the creatures slowly entered the clearing on their mounts.
Sila got closer to me, and flared her teeth at the creatures. I took a burning twig out of the fire and started holding it towards them. They backed away a little, so I took some more twigs out of the fire and made a circle around Sila and I with them. They stayed a good distance away, then after what seemed to be a day or so (but really only about two hours) one by one they all started leaving. Another hour or so passed, I thought it was safe to go out of the circle of fire. I put out the fire, and packed and mounted Sila again. I started riding in the opposite direction of them, but then I thought, "They would think I would go the opposite direction, so I'm going to go towards them instead". I told Sila to turn around, and she did so looking very confused.
I rode the way they had gone, and found that the creatures were nowhere in sight. I sighed and went on ahead and out of the forest. I was kind of ashamed of myself for letting a good fight go, but then I thought it was probably a good idea to not fight those strange creatures without even knowing what they were. I then rode on back to the inn. When I got there, I put up my hood so it didn't show my ears and my pale features, and I didn't reveal my identity to anyone either. I went to my room, and got in the bed, and fell asleep.
I had nightmares that night, about the creature that was chasing me. The nightmares were all about the creature catching me, and then killing me, but I would always wake up when it was about to kill me. I would wake up sweating and shaking all over, but every time I went back to sleep I could feel its presence drawing near, then I would look behind me and see it killing Sila, then when it was done it would look up at me, and start coming towards me. I couldn't scream, or move. It would throw back its hood to reveal its slimy skeletal insect face. Then it would grab me by the head right under my cheekbones, and with its slimy skeletal hands, start lifting me up and bending its own head throwing back its hood to reveal a slimy skeletal face. It raised a blade to my throat and started pushing it harder and harder. I knew it was going to kill me, so I stopped struggling and went limp. Right as the blade got pushed so hard and I thought I must have been bleeding all over and it should be dying soon, I would open my eyes and be in my bed, I would have woken up.
I didn't get any sleep that night. In the morning I got up out of bed, and got dressed in my usual clothes. I put up my hood again and went down the stairs to have my breakfast. When I got down there, no one was in the room. Weird I thought to myself. Then I saw the manager of the inn and went over to him.
When I got to where he was, I kept my hood covering my face and asked, "Where is everyone?"
The manager looked up and said slyly, "Let me see you face first".
"No I will not show my face, for it would frighten you" I only said that so he wouldn't ask me any more about my face.
The manager rolled his eyes and answered my question calmly, "They all left except a few, and I believe they are all sleeping right now".
"Why did they leave? There were so many of them last night," I asked confused
"Because there is a festival going on at Talia," the manager said again rolling his eyes.
"Oh, what are they doing there?"
"You don't know!" the manger exclaimed.
"Yeah, I don't know" I said a little irritated, for I was getting sick and tired of this guy.
"Well, the festival is about going there, eating, and watching shows, selling slaves, and…that's about all they do".
"Really, well then what part of Talia is it in?"
"Well, I can't quite remember" he answered sarcastically.
"Oh really" with a quick flash a steel I had my five inch dagger under his throat. "Where" I demanded.
"It-it is in the eastern part of Talia" he squeaked.
"Thank you" I whisked my dagger back into my cloak and walked away leaving the manger on the floor shaking.
I left the inn and walked over to the stables, packed and mounted Sila once again. I rode off at a trot towards the direction of Talia.
