1

This book is no ordinary book.

Never begin a sentence for a book like that, unless of course the statement is true.

This book takes you to a place where no one will ever see, or hear of, unless of course you read this book. It takes place in the mystical Land Of Elves or as they like to call it The Forest of Night.

"Ms.Hakken, where are you?"..."My dear, this young lady never stays put".

"Ugh she is calling me again, why can't I just stay out in the night and watch the moon? Isn't it what we elves do, right Micues?"

"Well you should listen to her; she is your grandmother of course. It would be nice if you could stay a little longer with me though".

"Ms.Hakken, where are you?"

"Why does that old hag keep calling me, I do not like it when she calls me Ms.Hakken"

"Well Lenne, it is quite awkward that she calls you Ms.Hakken, since she's your grandmother and all"

"Micues, do you think she still doesn't accept me as her grandchild...since what happened to my mother and father?"

"Oh Lenne, why do you worry? I'm sure she accepts you"

"Ms.Hakken there you are!"

"Goodbye Micues, shall we meet tomorrow too?"

"Oh yes we will, oh and Lenne"

"Yes?"

"Have a nice evening, and don't worry ok?"

"Alright, see you tomorrow"

"Why do you always have to meet that boy every day? Ms.Hakken, you know you are not to leave the house after curfew hours."

"Yes grandmother I understand, but-"

"No buts, and will you please call me by the name Mrs.Manikan?"

"Grandmo-"

"What did I just say?"

"Ms.Manikan,I would like to have a different curfew,6:00 pm is to early to keep me locked in."

"No you may not, and don't tell your Mr.Manikan about this either! Understood?"

"Why shouldn't I tell grandpapa?"

"Ah, never mind Ms.Hakken, walk with me to the residence we share will you?"

I wonder if she doesn't accept me as her grandchild ever since that incident with mother and father, she was never like that.

I remember the days when she used to play with me and let me go with Micues anywhere. That day mother and father died because of me, she was angry at me, she couldn't stare into my eyes and say "I love you". It was awful, slowly I let her drift away, I did not want her to be so cold to me, instead to let her be and to not force her to say "I love you" to me, it seemed easier to leave her alone and let her keep her resentment. But grandpapa, he never was cold to me, instead he gave me more affection, he saw that I felt like it was my fault. He knew, and that is why we are still close, but grandmother does not let me talk to him anymore, instead she tries to keep him away from me, as if I was going to kill him like I did to my mother and father, like if she need to protect him from me .No one knows what really happened that day, except for Micues and myself.

I tell Micues anything, and he listens, that's the good thing about him, he always listens to you. But grandmother wants me to stop talking to him; she even said "You should not be with that boy so long; you might end up killing him". She doesn't understand. I tried telling her it wasn't my fault, but she wouldn't listen. Micues tells me to forget about what happened, and I try to but part of me always has this glimpse of what I did. I didn't know what was happening it wasn't like I was controlling the knives, the axes, the forks. I didn't do all that, all I know is that something was controlling those things and it wasn't aiming for me, it was coming from behind me and going to them. I didn't mean it, I didn't do it, I didn't do it, and I didn't do it!

"I didn't do it!"

"Lenne are you ok?" said Micues from my window.

"Micues!"I shout as I rush towards him.

"How did you climb up here?

"Lenne, you have to remember, our kind is excellent as such things"

"Well, I am not excellent at such things"

"So what were you panting there?"

"I was panting?"

"Yes you were, Lenne, it seemed like you had a nightmare and were whispering something"

"Oh, well nothing to worry about Micues, I am fine, would you like to come in?"

"Well, I was waiting for you to wake up so that I can report to you about what happened right after you left. That is unless you heard it from your grandmother first, she was there assisting the mischief herself"

"No I haven't, and I am now to call her Mr.Manikan"

"Oh yes I heard that straight from her mouth when I said aren't you Lenne's grandmother, and she replied "I will not be called Lenne's grandmother, now on she calls me Mrs.Manikan"

"She is a cruel one you know? She won't let me call her grandmother, well I don't care anymore"

"Lenne, I know but remember, I came here to report to you what happened after you left"

"Ok the go on"

"Well when you left, after a few moments, Mrs.Manikan approached me with another elf. It was this young beautiful elf, and she reminded me of Crystal"

"Mrs.Manikan told me, this is Crystal's younger sister, younger by a year, I say she is more beautiful than Ms.Hakken, don't you agree Mr.Cronos?"

"All I did was nod, in order to not make her upset"

"Then Mrs.Manikan told me, her name is Ruby, why isn't that cute, Crystal and then Ruby?"

"She continued, those Maples always with the gem names, well Ruby I will leave you with Mr.Cronos while I go off to cook supper for my husband and Ms.Hakken."

"I sighed at the sight of her leaving me alone with this Ruby girl, I tried to retreat"

"Ruby grabbed my arm and said, you know, Mrs.Manikan hates Lenne. She wishes for the worse for her, that's why she introduced me to you"

"I said to Ruby, Look I don't care what Mrs.Manikan wants, as long as it doesn't hurt Lenne or her feelings"

"Ruby said to me, Well I don't really know Lenne nor do I care to know her, all I know is that you are a wonderful looking elf and that

Mrs.Manikan wants me to be with you"

"I said, Well Ruby I do not want to be with you even if you are the most beautiful girl in the whole forest, because deep inside of you, your hear isn't beautiful like your body, this is what Lenne has and what you don't"

"Ruby responded, Well Mr.Cronos I do have both a beautiful heart and body, I don't know why you care for this Lenne so much, she-"

"Well Ruby, Lenne is something you can never be, and you will never replace her because she and I have known each other ever since we were children, this is why I care for Lenne's well-being, and Ruby I do not have to tell you my reasons for why I care for Lenne, I best be leaving"

"Ruby said to me, you are such and awful soul, I don't see anything wrong with me and my body, but Lenne has a bunch of defects, such as her psycho mind! I should be leaving too, and don't ever think you can be with any of the Maples when that Lenne tries to kill you and you lose affection for her"

"At this point I was leaving and she was running to the lake crying her eyes off"

"Well Micues, thank you for telling me what happened. And thank you for advising me that Mrs.Manikan is trying to ruin me, now I know that she really does not accept me as her grandchild"

"Oh Lenne, do not worry, remember you always have me and your grandfather"

"No I don't have grandpapa; Mrs.Manikan is trying to separate me from him."

"Don't worry Lenne, if that works on your grandfather then you still have me right?"

"Yes Micues I can always count on you to help me in my time of need"

"Oh do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"Come closer Lenne,"

At that moment of me coming closer Micues gives me a kiss on the cheek, and hands a present to me.

"Oh Micues! How can you do that? You know I don't like those tricks, but thank you."

"Hahaha. Well Lenne I know you don't like those tricks with me kissing you but I wasn't meant to kiss you, I leaned forward to take out the present from my bag but I kissed you by accident"

"Hmm. Well Micues I suppose it is alright if you kiss me, I mean we are best friends from childhood, and its been 15 years since knowing you when I was two."

"Ahh, Lenne I will kiss you then, but only in special occasions don't want us to get too involved with each other, well at least not yet"

"Micues, I know what you mean, well then-"

"Ms.Hakken, it is supper time! Come quickly if you want your supper"

"Oh Micues, I suppose that you should go, we will talk later on tomorrow, alright good evening"

"Goodbye Lenne and tomorrow yes we shall see each other again"

"Ms.Hakken come right now, or you will not get any food!"

"Coming Mrs.Manikan!"

As I walk down the stairs to my kitchen I see grandpapa and Mrs.Manikan sitting across from each other, without a expression on their faces.

It was disturbing and felt like if they were talking about me or arguing.

"You can sit now Ms.Hakken. Sit and eat your supper and don't interrupt my husband's and my conversation."

I just glared at her while she picked up with her fork the lettuce, sprinkled with pepper, and looked fresh and moist. I felt in a terrible position because I badly wanted to talk to grandpapa.

"Now, hunny you know we can't just continue to live her with Ms.Hakken. You know what might happen at the dangers."

"I refuse to put her in the Elf Psychiatric Ward. She does not belong there."

"Don't you remember what she did? She needs help, help we can't give her, or she might kill us like she did with my daughter! Ms.Hakken can't live with us"

"For Malandra's sake! Stop calling her Ms.Hakken, she is your grandchild and she is mine too, you can't keep calling her that and keep trying to separate her from me!"

"I am only doing that to keep you safe from her harmful ways. I know she is my grandchild, unfortunately."

"No I refuse to do this to her, you have to let her be, let her call you grandmother like before! Stop treating her like if she weren't blood related to you!"

"If I let her call me grandmother she might try to kill me later on, she might only be trying to kill her family relatives, for Malandra's sake we don't know who's she's planning to kill or trying to"

This really was an uncomfortable position. They were talking about me right in front of me like if I was a mute elf that could not understand what they were saying or who they were talking about. I had to say something, but I couldn't, but I knew I had to before the put me in that awful place.

"Mrs.Manikan! I am not crazy, I do not need to be treated as if I were some mute or if I were death of some sort."

"Oh dear Lenney, I am sorry fro treating you like that, but as you can see your grandmother is trying to put you in the Elf Psychiatric Ward"

"Ms.Hakken! I would greatly appreciate it if you could leave the dinner table, or do not talk-"

"No! Grandmother I am tired of being treated like this by you! Grandpapa is right you shouldn't treat me like if we aren't blood related! I know what you tried to do with Micues too! You are trying to ruin me; you want me out of your sight! Well maybe I should leave then."

At that moment, that thing happened again, a fork lifted and went right into grandmother's lettuce breaking the flower in scripted clay plate. I knew I had to leave or try to get grandpapa out of there before anything bad happened again. I pulled both of them out of there and locked them in a room; the forks went flying into the door. I ran, I ran as fast as I could, I thought everything would stop if I leave that house and they wouldn't get hurt either.

"I heard my grandmother scream, and my grandpapa yell at her to calm down, I stopped to look back, and the sound in there stopped. All I heard was grandmother say "She tried to kill us, see I told you", and my grandpapa say "She saved our lives, I don't think it's her doing that, I think it only happens when she gets upset, and she can't control it. I hope she is alright. After I heard that, I ran, I ran to the only house that would let me stay, the Cronos house.

I arrived at the house, panting to catch my breath, I knocked on the door, and then I heard Micues say "I will be right there". He opened the door and saw me out of breath. That's when everything stopped. I fainted and I suppose Mr.Cronos put me in the living room sofa, and Micues was waiting patiently for me to wake up.

Micues whispered in my ear "Is everything ok? Are you hurt, do you need anything?"

I tried to get up, and I accomplished to, with Micues' help.

"I'm fine; I guess I fainted from what happened and me running"

"Oh Lenne, you get me so worried sometimes, here have some floral tea, my mother made it, it should help"

"Thank you"

The tea, it tasted sweet and delicious at first but the aftertaste was sour and bitter. It was pink and had a flower petal in it, I have never drunken a tea like this, nor have I ever heard of such. I smiled at its' sweet taste, I liked this tea, it is something I will never forget, I promised myself to not forget important things, like Micues' and my friendship, or like my grand papa's cinnamon smell. This tea was added on to the list.

"This tea is unique, I favor it greatly, and may I have more?"

"Lenne, you may not have more, this tea is very strong even though it doesn't seem like it, I too want the tea so we must save some for me "Micues says as he chuckles.

"Well it is a quite delicious tea; may I ask your mother were she heard of it?"

"Well, she actually made it up herself; you know she works with herbs and flowers right Lenne?"

"Oh yes, I remember that you told me that once when we were seven years old. I thought it was interesting when you told me that, since I was picking flowers at that time."

Micues chuckles and sighs "Well Lenne, what has bought you here? Did something happen? Did someone hurt you? I must know who hurt you so that I can see what the problem with them is, you know I'll protect you Lenne if anyone hurts you."


Micues was a normal height elf, height 5'4 I was about the same height, I was tall for a girl elf, we elf girls are to be 4'8 at maximum. Micues was also quite strong but with
no muscles like the big broad elf men that work out every day at the gym. He actually looked as if he couldn't hurt anyone, as it was true. He couldn't hurt anyone without a
reason to. I remember when I was ten years old and he was eleven, I was pushed around by another fellow elf classmate, he pulled my hair and was going to punch me. He
did, I told Micues, and Micues went up to the elf and threw him against the wall, he punched him hard, took out a tooth of the kid. He promised he was going to protect me
no matter what happens. I saw a kid beating him in school, I told him to stop and Micues said
"I'm sorry you have to see this Lenne" .I cried and said "Stop your hurting him", Micues was bleeding already, I tried to stop the elf hitting him, but he threw me into the
wall. I became unconscious for two minutes. When I woke up, Micues was up and had beaten the elf until he became unconscious. He was smiling and said "It's alright it's over now, thank you Lenne" I looked at him and saw that he was bleeding even more through his mouth; I ran with him to the nurses office, I was worried. That wasn't the only time Micues was beaten up, there were many times. So many times that I couldn't interfere because I was not there, but I knew that if I were to get hurt or someone else, Micues could always be the one to count on to get even with the person that hurt you.

I smiled and sighed at his questions responding with

"Micues no one hurt me. Just that it happened again. I was arguing with Mrs.Manikan and it started. I locked them in the room were they could be safe, and I ran to see if it would stop, and it did."

"Oh Lenne, I am so sorry it happened to you again."

"Micues, I had nowhere else to run to. The feeling of running, it feels so-"

"Lenne, there is no need to explain. So what happened, did you find anything about it since this is your second time of experiencing it"

"I have noticed one thing, Micues, when I get upset or am arguing, like I was with me mother that time, it happens, because this time I was upset and was arguing with Mrs.Manikan."

"Oh Lenne, that is quite troublesome, well have you learned anyway to control it?"

"Well I did have this odd feeling when it started, and somehow I stopped it when they were chasing me and my grandparents into the room"

"Lenne, I believe you may be on to something, you might actually be able to control it"

"Well, how am I going to learn how to control it?"

"I heard of some facility for special elves, but there are some bad rumors about the facility"

"What kind of rumors Micues?"

"Well Lenne, they say that the facility is meant for elves that are going crazy, and what they really give them is some kind of medical treatment"

"Micues! Time to sleep, you don't want to be late for the academy"

2

I awaken in Micues' bedroom. I was surprised to find myself there because I was asleep on the sofa at first. I searched to see if anyone was home because the house was as quiet as

grass growing in the fields. It amazed me when I used that phrase, because I always hated phrases that sounded abnormal like that. Another phrase they used to teach me was as quiet

as a looking glass. I disliked them both, at that age…though I didn't understand many things. I suppose now, I do understand, or maybe was it just something that I remembered from

the back of my head?

I wonder where they have all gone. All I remember of what happened last night was that Mrs.Cronos told Micues to go to sleep fro the academy. But I thought Micues quit that

academy, he told me he wasn't interested in learning about the technology human used. He said he was more interested in learning about herbs like his mother, but to become a scientist

as his father. Well, it is not up to me what Micues does I thought to myself.

I walked downstairs to the dinning room to find a note on the table. It read:

Dear Miss Lenne,

We have all gone our ways for the day; please do as you please in the house if you like. If you wish to see Micues, he is at the academy; he gets out at approximately 4:00 pm today at the front gate. Till then do as you wish but remember to take the keys to the house that is on top of the sofa.

Well, I suppose I shall eat some breakfast and do something out in the fresh air afterwards. I go into the kitchen and open the basket of food (you see we elves do not store our food in

those things called "refrigerators" like those humans do. Instead we use baskets since we usually eat herbs and bread that has been picked from the Garden of Kambos, our Lord of

fresh supplies of food that we give thanks to.). There really wasn't much inside the basket, just bread and some herbs. I sighed and decided to go to the Garden of Kambos to get some

herbs, bread, and vegetables to eat. It is the least I could do since I am staying in there house. I pick up the basket and then it struck me. I forgot to get a sacrifice to get the food. I

always thought it was brutal that our Lord Kambos needed a sacrifice in order to allow us to get food. I looked around the house and I found not one animal to sacrifice, so I decided to

go outside and retrieve a rabbit, since there are so many in our world. I continued on with the basket in my hand, grabbed the keys and left the house. As soon as I stepped out I smelt

the air, it was wonderful to be outside again. Then as I opened my eyes again I saw a rabbit right there in front of me smelling the basket. I quickly grabbed it by it's' ears and took it

with me to the Garden of Kambos. It kept on moving, I felt pity for it but… I had to sacrifice it, I had no choice. I approached the Garden of Kambos and there was a gate keeper who

said "Do you have a sacrifice for our Great Lord Kambos that gives us food to feast on?" I replied with the normal salute of "Yes, our mighty Lord Kambos will receive a sacrifice from

me while I retrieve some gracious food that He gives to us." The guard once again with the usual salute said "Then pass elf of Eden, the great Lord Kambos awaits your sacrifice". The

guard let me pass the gate as I walked in the air had a great scent of white flowers and herbs mixed together. I looked at the rabbit I had bought and it had stopped struggling, I sighed

and continued walking towards the pedestal where you put the sacrifice you make for the Lord Kambos. There the sacrificial blade was placed; I grabbed it and put the rabbit on the

pedestal. At that moment I slit the rabbit's neck. Then the skies turned gray and I sensed the ritual has begun. I immediately grabbed the blade slit my arm and poured my blood on the

eyes of the dead rabbit, as it was always done in the ritual. I used my thumb to inscribe on the fur of the rabbit "To The Great Lord Kambos I Have Spilled Blood For". The skies

turned back to blue and the scent of flowers and herbs came back again. The ritual was over and the rabbit disappeared from the pedestal as a sign that the sacrifice had been accepted.