Auhtors Note1: Thank you for the Reviews, I´m happy that you like the story about Riveria and Bell.

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Bell had seen various things since he came to Orario, the horror of the dungeon, the fascinating environment...beautiful women. But the sight before his eyes when he woke up in the morning...was one of the best.
As usual when he was traveling, the first sounds of animals and shy sunrays woke him up. Blinking while he slowly opened them, his eyes got used to the brightness...then he saw her.

Wow...

Riveria was still sleeping, laying a two meters away from him. In her sleep she had turned towards Bell, the sun came from behind her so it didn´t woke her up directly. From the first moment, he was captivated by her beauty, she looked so peaceful while she slept.
Her blanket slowly rose and fell with her breath, except for her head and a hand, everything was covered by the blanket. Just for a second, his eyes wandered over the blanket and he admired the outline of her body. And her face...after he heard her sobbing last night, Riveria now looked so peaceful and at ease.
Bell only had a guess, but he was actually the first man who ever saw the sleeping Riveria like this. During Expeditions in the dungeon, Riveria had her own tent, it would be inappropriate if a man could see her like this. Not because she was a princess, but because she was an elven woman.
Bell couldn´t stop his eyes, they wandered to Riveria´s ear that was visible through her hair...he was always fascinated by them.
A slight movement caught his attention, maybe it was her hand, but something moved under her blanket. The blanket covered her from the middle of her throat downwards, but now...something moved up. A tiny head with reddish fur came out under the blanket...and yawned.

It was a squirrel...a tiny squirrel was under Riveria´s blanket and apparently had slept there. In the past he saw how Ryu and Lefiya acted around wild animals, that they naturally trusted them...but this...this was on a whole other level. The more he looked at the peacefully sleeping Riveria, the more warm got his heart.
But Bell was a healthy young man and he couldn´t help having certain thoughts. After he heard her sobbing last night..Bell wanted to comfort her. He wished he could gently brush the few hair strains out of her face...cup her cheek with his hand...maybe giving her a soft good morning kiss. His face grew warm when he looked at her lips, with that inviting curve.
But now was not the time, he also felt a bit guilty, watching Riveria sleep...but it wouldn´t be the last time.

Bell slowly sat up and yawned lightly, stretching his arms over his head. The squirrel yawned with him and crawled out from under her blanket. The movements and noises from Bell weren´t unnoticed by Riveria, her face twitched lightly, as did her ears.
That was a picture that Bell burned into his mind, not only did he have a thing for elves...but he was so fascinated by their beauty, especially their ears. It was just way too cute when Ryu or Lefiya did that, Ryu mostly when she was confused and Lefiya when she was surprised or upset. But Riveria...maybe it was because she was an adult elf or her serious nature...but that small gesture..let her look so cute in his eyes.

I want to protect her...to shield her from everything sad and evil...make her happy.

Of course he knew that Riveria was very strong, one of the two strongest mages in Orario...the whole world...but he couldn´t help his own nature.

"Nnnh..."

Her eyelids fluttered while she drifted from sleep to be awake. Bell averted his face, not because he didn´t wanted to get caught watching her, but because she was a woman in bed that was about to wake up.
It just wouldn´t be right to watch her while her mind wasn´t really awake, she could move in a way that she didn´t intended to, and Bell didn´t wanted to embarass her. Riveria´s eyes opened and got used to the bright early morning very fast, her ears twitched again as she noticed all the sounds around her.
It was the first time in a while that she slept in a forest, the sound of the lake had helped her to fall asleep. And for the first time in her life, the first thing she saw in the morning was a man...was Bell. He was turned away from her and rubbed the back of his head, yawning. A faint smiled appeared shortly on her lips, she had thought it would feel much different the first time this happened.
The squirrel next to her squeaked and looked at her.

"Good morning little one." She gently stroked the squirrel´s head and it jumped into the forest after rubbing it´s head on her hand.

Riveria sat up and yawned lightly, yawning in front of Bell...well more behind his back...after waking up was okay. She saw his head turning into her direction, a soft smile on his lips.

"Good morning, Ms. Riveria."

"Good morning, Bell."

She noticed that he averted his eyes from her, Riveria could guess why he was doing it.

Not looking at me because I´m still in bed and wearing my sleeping clothes...he really is a gentleman.

"If you want to go first to the lake to wash your face and such, I will clean up the camp in the meantime."

"I would prefer it if you wait with that until I return."

"O-Of course...your clothes.."

"No Bell, my clothes are one thing, but I don´t want you to do everything for me."

"But..."

"No but, I´m not a pampered little girl, I will do my share...okay?"

She saw him smiling. "Okay."

For Riveria it was one thing when Bell tried to be a gentleman and nice, she understood his nature to be nice to women. But she felt unwell if he would try to do everything for her, even if he meant well. At the same time she was happy that he didn´t did it because she was a princess or a high elf...simply because she was herself.
Since she didn´t wanted to pull out her clothes in front of Bell, even when he was turned away from her, Riveria took her backpack with her, and her underwear that she had washed last night. Riveria didn´t looked over her shoulder, she trusted Bell as she undressed and washed herself shortly. Doing that in a forest in the early morning was a bit cold but also very refreshing, in the past she had done it together with Aina when they traveled through their home forest.
The worry of last night was mostly gone, it was the second day of their journey and Riveria was even more determined to help Aina. They would find the flower to cure the illness...because Riveria didn´t knew what she would do otherwise...her heart wasn´t ready to wish Aina goodbye...maybe never would be. But she had Bell with her, he tried to cheer her up and she knew that he was lucky.

We will find it, we will save you, Aina!

After finishing her washing, Riveria returned to the camp. As he had promised, Bell didn´t cleaned up everything, only his stuff. He looked surprised about the expression on her face, Riveria looked...flustered. Bell couldn´t know it, but she got deep red when she searched for her clothes in her backpack...and found something that shouldn´t be inside her backpack...
She had a good guess why this was there.

Loki...you...!

"Bell, you can go."

"Thank you."

With a short smile to her, he went to the lake. Riveria cleaned up her side with professional efficiency of an experienced adventurer. Even when they weren´t in the dungeon, she packed her stuff fast, there was no reason for her to slack off.
And...the faster they cleaned up the camp and had breakfast, the faster they could continue their travel.

After Bell returned, they cleaned up everything and had a light breakfast, containing mostly seeds and bread, together with two hard boiled eggs each, they had to eat them today or there was a chance they would go bad.

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"Ms. Riveria?"

"Yes?"

"I wanted to ask, these are not your usual boots, aren´t they?"

They had left the forest after a short while and were now in open grasslands again. Bell only glanced shortly to her boots, he thought it would be impolite to stare too much at her feet.

"You have good eyes, these are elven travel boots, they have a very soft sole."

"So these are common for your people?"

"Not ones with such a quality, these were a gift from my father when I left the forest. While he wasn´t happy about it, he still wanted me to travel as comfortable as possible."

"He must really love you."

Riveria sighed slightly but smiled shortly. "He tried his best that I would follow his wishes. He embodies the best and the worst of what it means to be a high elf. But yes...he still loves to dote on me."

"That reminds me I wanted to ask something else."

"Go ahead."

"How should I act when we arrive at the first forest? You told me that forest elves don´t like humans very much."

"A good question, if you hadn´t asked I would have told you by myself."

Riveria had a special smile on her lips, she couldn´t let go of the habit to be proud of a pupil when they asked a good question or were focused on their work. Not that Bell was really her pupil...but it was her habit of doing so.

"First you have to distinguish between forest elves and wood elves."

Bell looked really curious. "I thought so far it is only a way to translate it into the common language."

"Elvish is a very complicated language compared to that of others, dwarves are very direct and the human tongue is...well..."

"Simple?"

"Let´s call it that." Riveria didn´t chuckled even when she was slightly amused, her teacher like behaviour came through.

"Forest elves like Lefiya, Filvis, Lyon and me live in the forests. Wood elves live with the forests."

Even when Bell didn´t asked anything, his look was enough for Riveria to hear the words in her mind "And the difference is?".

"We forest elves have our homes in the forests, simple houses or trees that were shaped with magic. The easiest way to describe it, imagine a house built inside a tree, without hurting the tree or killing it. We respect the forest and the spirits living there, we are having festivals to honor them."

"Spirits? Spirits live inside the forests?!"

"Not big spirits like Ais´ mother, smaller spirits, it is common to see Undine´s in the rivers and lakes, or Sylphs nearly everywhere. When we lit campfires for the festivals, the Salamander spirits float around and inside it."

"What are Sylphs? I heard the name of the other two before, but not that one."

"Sylphs are lesser wind spirits, they do what they want. Sometimes playing harmless pranks on people, they can be bold but never hostile, they are just "free spirited"."

Riveria chuckled slightly after her last words.

Bell was always enchanted when she smiled or chuckled, it let her only look more beautiful.

"I´m sorry Bell, it is a sort of pun among elves. It only makes really sense in elvish, I guess."

"I don´t understand enough of elvish for that, probably."

"You are learning elvish?" She looked surprised.

"As much as I can, it is not that easy."

"Do you have...wait...of course you have a special reason...probably three." She smiled gently.

Hah...if you knew...actually... four...

To tell the elves he loved in elvish how much he loved them always let them smile. Elvish was a very lyrical language and saying "I love you" had a much, much deeper meaning than in the common language. It was basically confession and a marriage proposal in one, since elves only fell in love with one person during their whole life.
He would never forget how Lefiya´s eyes had widened and her lower lip trembled when he spoke those special words to her in fluent elvish. And...Bell wanted to say these words to Riveria too, slight different words maybe. It may be improper, but Bell really only learned elvish to flatter Ryu, Lefiya, Eina...and Riveria...show them their love...and flirt with them.

Which meant...he absolutely couldn´t say anything to Riveria in elvish now. All the words he knew had a romantic meaning...in the future he would learn more, so much that he would speak this language as good as a human could.

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"Now that you have an image about forest elves, let´s talk about wood elves, the first obvious difference would be that they live much deeper in the forests than we do. You probably won´t meet even one of them, since they live mostly in different forests, the wild ones."

"Wild forests?"

"Those with more wild spirits, wood elves defend their forests and are openly hostile to everyone who invades their territories."

"But I thought the forest elves defend their forests too?"

"We do, but wood elves kill every intruder, even those who are just lost. No one survives, except those who are stronger than them. Another difference is the appearance, you have seen a few elves in Orario and how we dress. As you know, we cover most of our skin and don´t show them except for our loved ones.
And also...for the better or worse...we are all very proud."

Bell smiled wryly, he saw what happened when the pride of an elf was hurt and sullied by themself. Most elves were easily agitated, especially with lewd jokes or other things. Often enough he had to hold back Ryu or Lefiya when they wanted to act too hasty in some situations. Lefiya even chased him after she heard about the incident on the 18th Floor...but that was long in the past.

Riveria continued. "And wood elves, wear nearly no clothes."

"Huh?"

"They are not naked of course, but except from pants, boots and something around the chest of the women, they don´t have clothes. Maybe sometimes a bracelet made from leather, but not much more. Their clothes are made from leather and fabric woven from plant fibers.
It has a really wild touch, they want to be one with the nature."

"I..I see..."

"Bell...you are better not imagining something right now?" She raised an eyebrow.

"O-O-Of course not!"

He would never imagine a woman in short leather clothes that would reveal most of her skin. And of course not Ryu!...or Eina!...or Lefiya...or Riveria... Surely...not...well maybe...a little bit.

"Is that so? well then it's all right."

Riveria adjusted her backpack and continued.

"Since the elves in the forests don´t have much contact with humans, don´t say too much. Most of them won´t understand you anyway, since they only speak elvish, they are too proud to learn any other language. Leave the talking to me please."

"Sounds good."

They continued to talk for a while and after that, enjoyed to walk in silence side by side. The mountains came closer and closer.

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Three days later.

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It was the sixth day since they left Orario when they arrived at their first destination, the moon already started to rise. The forest of the Alv mountains.

"Bell, I hate to say that...but whatever you do, please keep your hands away from your weapons. I know that you aren´t like this, but they will be nervous. I also want to apologize if you don´t understand anything now, trust me...yes?"

"Of course I trust you Ms. Ri-...ahm...now that I think about it...should I call you something different? Mylady? Lady Alfr?"

For some reason he saw a faint blush on her cheeks. "I guess...lady Riveria will do...But only as long as we are among the other elves!"

"Understood, lady Riveria."

"Mmmhh..."

It was more embarrassing for Riveria to be called "lady Riveria" by Bell than just "Riveria" would be. The alv mountains rose before them in their full glory, the forest at his feet about six times the size of Orario.

"Wow...so large..."

"The alv mountains forest has the usual size, most of the forests aren´t that much bigger, the Alf´s royal forest is about for times the size of this one."

"Four times?!"

"Yes, more or less twenty-eight times Orario."

"Wow..."

Far away from them he saw a tree that was far bigger than the ones around it. They followed a narrow path between the foothills of the forest, which led them through a thicket of various bushes. Bell saw some rose bushes, butterfly bushes, hydrangeas, lavender heather, and a few others.
Bell knew a little bit about plants due to his past in the village, so it was a bit strange to see so many different kinds together. The roses were still in full bloom and filled the air with a pleasant smell, even those came in various colors. Bell only knew red ones...but some were white, a few even blue..and he saw one with black blossoms.

Riveria only mumbled from the side. "So many grow here because it is an elven forest. They mark different paths."

Her eyes were focused on the path, Bell walked with slightly spread arms, keeping his hands away from his weapons.

He mumbled. "Where are they?"

"They know that we are here, trust me."

Riveria wore her usual robe that she used in Orario, she had explained to him that elves would easily notice this robe and from where it came. She didn´t liked to use her status as a princess, but the situation was too important to be picky.
Still...while Bell peered into the dark wood, he couldn´t help but feel excited, he walked into an elven forest! Finally! And at the side of a beautiful, dignified elven woman! The air felt different, he was in a forest before in the past, but this one just felt...different.
Both kept walking until they reached a small clearing.

"Wait here, Bell."

Riveria walked a bit until she stood in the middle of the clearing, raising her voice.

Bell didn´t understood a word that Riveria said, it were about two sentences. But his heart jumped in joy when he heard her voice, not only was elvish a very lyrical language, it sounded so wonderful when she spoke it. When Ryu or Lefiya had spoke simple sentences to him, he fell even more in love with them...and he told them that.

Riveria continued, Bell now understood four words. "Aluna un ad Riveria Ljos Alfr, un dror "Knight"." She spoke more but Bell didn´t understood anything of that, he was happy enough to listen to her, and couldn´t help but smile.
A few moments after Riveria was finished they heard nothing except for the normal sounds of a forest. Then Bell heard a voice from somewhere out of the forest, a sentence.

"Alun eldr."

Haaaa...I could listen to her voice like this for hours!

Bell tried to remain as calm as possible, but he felt it...he really was heads over heels for her...

There was a slight rustling, followed by movement between the trees. In the branches of a huge beech tree appeared two elves holding bows in their hands, two more on the ground, each of them carrying a spear of a style that Bell had never seen.
All four elves wore green and brown clothes, made from a cloth that looked similar to one of Riveria´s robes, their feet were in fine, leathern boots, similar to Riveria´s. They didn´t looked cheep, but Riveria´s had a far better quality. It were two men and two women, two of them blonde, one with brown hair and the last one with green.
The archers jumped down from the branches and all four formed a line in front of Riveria...kneeling down immediately. Bell´s eyes widened, not because of the act of the four elves...but Riveria´s reaction to it. She looked very uncomfortable and the tips of her ears got slightly red.

Riveria said something in elvish and the four elves got back to their feet. Bell couldn´t make out a leader among them, but one of the men turned around and jogged into the forest. Two of the others talked silently to Riveria, while the last one, a woman, eyed Bell.
The woman turned her head to Riveria and asked her something that Bell didn´t understood either.

"Alun, Odr ad un ele Orario, har dur elunja "Knight"."

The eyes of the three other elves widened and they looked at Bell with...respect?

He smiled friendly and bowed in a polite way, his hands spread away from his weapons. He placed his right hand above his heart...and made a terrible mistake.

"I happy to meet your ears."

The three elves looked puzzled, then the women started to giggle. Riveria looked really flustered and displeased in an instant and got red.

"Bell..."

"I´m sorry, lady Riveria...did I say something wrong?"

"Yes..."

Bell pressed his arms against his sides and bowed down repeatedly. The elves said something again to Riveria, then they vanished into the forest again.

"Come, Bell..."

"I´m sorry..."

He followed Riveria, in the moment that they got under the trees, they were enveloped by velvet darkness, but it didn´t felt unpleasant. The elves didn´t went with them, they remained on their post.

"Ahm...what did I say?"

"That you are happy to meet their ears."

"What?!"

"Yes...please don´t try to speak elvish if you can´t do it right...or we might get into trouble."

"Understood...I´m sorry."

"Hah...it´s okay."

"May I ask...what did you tell them?"

"I told them who I am and that you are my companion...my knight."

"Your knight?"

"The word for "knight" have different meanings in my language, in this context it means that you accompany me ... as a kind of bodyguard. Since I am a royal among elves, it is just fitting that I am accompanied by a chamberlain or a personal knight."

"So I am..."

"If someone asks, you are my knight. I´m sorry if that is uncomfortable for you, but it will make our journey easier...okay?"

"Okay."

Bell squealed in his mind out of happiness. Not only was he Riveria´s companion on that journey...he was her "knight"! Bell couldn´t be more happy at the moment.

"Where are we going now?"

"Meeting with their village elder, we need to ask for permission to go deeper into the forest."

"Is there a chance they won´t let us?"

"Only if we don´t behave."

"But I thought...I mean...you are..."

"That...doesn´t matter at the moment...not with this village elder."

"Do you know him or her?"

"I know him..."

Riveria sighed.

"Oh and Bell before I forget it, try to be calm in every situation."

"Because of the elves?"

"No, well yes for them too, but the spirits living here could be offended otherwise."

I would love to see a spirit...

Right now, Bell Cranel was just a young boy wandering into a land out of a fairy tail.

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Bell really was in a magical land, the further they came the brighter got the forest. While the canopy of leaves above them blocked the light of the stars and the moon, small floating light orbs drifted around in the air. It looked really magical in here, he heard the sound of a small stream somewhere, soon he even saw it, running next to their path.

"Elves tend to settle near to water, this stream runs right through the village."

It took away Bell´s breath when they arrived at the small elven village. Riveria had said the truth, the trees here were all bigger than the giant tree on the hill in Orario´s south. Some of the trees had stairs attached to the bark...but it looked more like they were growing out of the wood.
Slender, elegant pillars supported canopies, in front of the entrances to the tree houses...all of them actually part of the trees. Here and there he saw elves walking around, most of them only looked shortly at Riveria, but stopped when they noticed Bell.

"It´s so beautiful..."

"You can see why they call it the "Spirit Village"."

"So those orbs..."

"Are lesser light spirits."

One of these orbs drifted slowly towards Bell, circled around his head for a moment, before it followed Riveria and eventually drifted away again.

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

"Hey whait..isn´t that...lady Riveria?"

Voices that spoke in elvish made Bell aware of the elves approaching.

Riveria wore a neutral expression. "Please, lower your voice, I´d prefer not to be made a spectacle again."

"I-I´m sorry! But your honorable and dignified countenance brings so much joy to our poor lives!"

Hah...they never change...

Bell glanced curious to Riveria as more and more elves gathered around them. Most of them ignored Bell after looking at him shortly, while a human was really, really rare here...a high elf like Riveria was even rarer. In fact, she was the only high elf that visited this forest since her visit three years ago with Lefiya, Filvis and Ryu.

"Ah our glorious lady Riveria! We can even accept the presence of this barbaric human adventurer when it means to be in your presence!"

He looked hopeful by the cheerfull greeting of the elves, it pained Riveria that Bell didn´t understood how these elves talked about him.

"Please stop talking about my knight like this, you are rude. But I thank you for your compliments, I would like to talk to the village elder, where can I find him?"

A small figure came closer to the crowd of elves, carrying a staff that was even taller than the figure.

An elven child?

Bell looked curious, the elf that came closer was at least over a head smaller than the other elves.

"What´s with all this ruckus?"

When the "child" stopped in front of Riveria, he sighed. "It´s the tomboy who ran away from home again..."

"Elder Lilo, I´m happy to see you well again."

Is this kid important?

"You there! Human! I can tell by your expression that you thought I am a child! I´m not a kid, I have lived far longer than you can imagine!"

This was the first sentence that Bell understood, since the small elf had spoken common tongue.

"E-Eh?"

"Elder Lilo, please wait. My knight, Bell, doesn´t have much experience with elves and he was never before in a village."

"Tch...first you ran away from home and then you travel with a human...how far has the royal family fallen..."

"My knight aside, we are here for a certain reason. A very dear friend of mine caught the "Eternal Illness" and we need to search deep into the forest if we can find an Infinity Flower. Since we know each other I hoped you would give us permission to enter the deep forest."

"Give you permission?! The last time you were hear the holy tree nearly burned to the ground and.-...be quiet you! I know it wasn´t her fault-...where were I...right, everytime you come here you want something precious from us. Tch! So how dare you come here again and-"

The other elves around the elder looked unpleased by his words, Bell kept quiet and waited a few steps behind Riveria...completely ignored by most of the elves.

"Elder! This is lady Riveria you are talking to!"

"She saved our holy tree last time!"

"Be quiet you all! I know what she did! But look what she has with her! She brought a barbarian into our village! Just look at his lusty eyes!"

In fact, most of the elves had problems to look into Bell´s eyes, not because he was a human...but they were startled by his rubelite eyes.

"But lady Riveria is the princess! She will have a reason to bring him with her!"

"If she trusts him, he is good enough to stay here!"

The elves tried to drown the elder out.

"Quiet! I am the village elder and it is my job to ensure the safety of this village!"

The short elf glared at Bell.

"You there, human!"

"Y-Yes?"

"We will let the tomboy search in the forest, but not a barbarian like you! You have to proof yourself first!"

Bell blinked and looked at Riveria. "Tom...boy?"

"It doesn´t matter now, Bell."

"Ahm...how should I...proof myself?"

The small elf showed him a smug grin. "Only the purest people are allowed to go into the deep forest. I would have said bring me a unicorn or a single spirit, but I heard you were rude to our guards and I see how you look at the women here with lusty eyes.
So bring me a herd of unicorns! But well...if that is too hard for you..."

Maybe it was luck, fate, destiny or something else, but the elder was interrupted by...neighing.

The elves turned around and got big eyes when not one but seven unicorns came out of the forest and trotted in their direction...or rather Riveria´s.

"Haaaa! Why are the unic-...oh it´s because of you again..."

The elder rememberred the last time Riveria was here, so he wasn´t that surprised when the unicorns came to her.

"Ehe.." Riveria smiled slightly and raised a hand to pet the head of the first unicorn...but it didn´t stopped and trotted past her.

"Hm?"

The elves went out of the way when the unicorns came closer...to Bell. He had seen a unicorn before, but only as a monster in the dungeon and Riveria had explained to him that they were completely different.
The unicorn looked at Bell with it´s big, dark eyes and neighed again. He stood still when it came closer, blinking and...rubbing it´s head against Bell´s.

"Haaaaa?! What is happening?!"

The elves could only watch in awe how the unicorns trotted to Bell and surrounded him, nudging their heads gently against him.

"Ahm...lady Riveria...I..."

"They seem to like you, try to pet them Bell, gently."

Slowly, Bell raised his hands and petted the head of a unicorn with each hand. He was very careful because of their horns, but they seemed to really like him. The small village elder could only stare in shock when another unicorn came out of the forest...a special one.
Like the other unicorns, it looked close to a horse with a horn on the head, completely white...but this one..was special. It was more slender than the others and definetely had a feminine aura among her, the female unicorn walked slowly and it looked almost like...she was smiling.
The other unicorns made room for her as she came closer...lowering her head almost...shy.

"Why is she here?!"

"It´s her!"

"The unicorn queen!"

Even the elves that lived in this forests only heard stories about this special unicorn...and now it was here.

"The purest among the unicorns! Why is she going to that barbarian?!"

Riveria smiled pleased when the unicorn queen stopped in front of Bell, looking at him.

Don´t tell me...he even charmed this pure being?

The unicorn queen blinked slowly...almost sensual...and nudged her head gently against Bell´s face, he giggled because of the ticklish feeling. The other unicorns came closer again and nudged against the back of his head and arms...they seemed to really like him.
At least..until Bell felt something wet against his ear.

"Irkh.."

One of the unicorns had licked Bell´s ear, another nibbled with it´s lips at his other ear.

"They even do that!"

The queen of the unicorns still gently nudged against Bell´s face...it looked almost like she was kissing his cheeks... And the one behind Bell...opened it´s lips and...put them over Bell´s hair.

"Uwaaa..."

The unicorn slowly pulled it´s lips back and moved forward again...it seemed to have fun playing with Bell´s hair...but he got his fair share of unicorn...saliva.

After a last soft nudge, the unicorn queen turned around and trotted into the forest, nudging her head gently against Riveria´s cheek while she passed her, the other unicorns followed.
Silence fell over the village...every elf looked at the not so happy Bell.

The village elder sighed.

"Well..I guess...I can´t argue against that..."