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The palisade was large maybe 10 feet tall, Erenis noted, at least 3 feet taller than herself. Each wooden pole looming up in the pale twilight,
casting eerie shadows in the allready growing shadows of the trees. Not that Erenis particularily cared about how the palisade looked right now,
all it meant was the end of a journey, one that had taken much longer than expected.
Actually it had taken two days longer than expected. Erenis was tired hungry and she could feel Adfeil's stregnth depleating with every step. Her
hair felt oily and unruly, battered by winds and rain. Her clothes still damp from fog and stream, torn in place's where she had ridden hard through
heavily wooded areas. Her food supply had run out the third day in, she had made do on stream water and she was begining to feel the affects.
Her mind was light-headed, her stomach turning, and a sharp pain everytime she drew her breath. She was a girl of a civilised city, riding for
four days straight had certainly taken it's toll.
Twilight caught Erenis star-struck as she watched the first of two guard-houses roll into view, each reaching out and holding her closer to the gate which would give her entrance to the settlement. A brook rippled through the landscape sending watery-shivers into the cool air, Proclaiming the nearing arrival of moon and frost. But the gates were nearing.
Large battered trunks of trees rambled together to form a sort of entrance barricade for unwanted visitors. A heavy gate fell in their silent wake, each metal rod entwined with another causing a methodical entrancement that swept you away from it's purpose. Adfeil's breathing was sharp and ragged, her muscles shaking with effort. Erenis pitied her horse, and all she had put it through.
At last! The gates grew up beneath them! The browns and grays of metal and wood smothered them as they heard shouting from the depths of
the wall. She could feel fatigue sweep up on her as the hazy faces of a few men struggled up to meet her. She could see the outline of their faces,
ashen and gray. She could smell something brazen coming to her lips. A scent carried by wind and dust. Smoke and ash came to meet her as
she saw past the people to the wreckage of the town. She was too late.. It had allready begun..
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woah! That was short! Hey readers, tis me! I actually have a plan for this story now! I didn't have one earlier but hey... It's a bit different... It would really help me if someone who was really into elves and knows alot about them could tell me what happened to the elves that chose not to pass. Would help me.. alot actually..
Until then! Thank-you for your kind reviews! I actually don't have time to reply to them right now, but if you review this chapter then I will deinitely write some out! Thhhank-you!
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