Chapter Three - The human in my bed
The human woman was silent for a few seconds and looked away shyly before she answered with a quiet voice "Yes I am awake". Cairaeleen observed the petite woman, who was at least one head smaller than her. She admired the beauty of the shy woman for a couple of minutes and then broke the silence by asking "What's your name?"
The human hesitated for a few moments then she answered, still not looking at Cairaeleen "My name is… Janelle… Janelle Cromwell". Janelle wanted to know the blood elf's name but something told her that it was better to not ask anything or say anything which wasn't necessary. Although she wanted to know more about this human it felt wrong for her somehow to talk with her. She didn't know where this feeling came from but her instincts told her do not interact with that blood elf too much.
"Janelle… that's a beautiful name for a beautiful woman" Cairaeleen responded looking with a raised eyebrow at the human, who still refused to look at her. Janelle stayed silent so Cairaeleen spoke again. "My name is Cairaeleen Somberflow. I am a lieutenant of the Silvermoon army but you don't have to worry, I won't tell anyone that you are here". Janelle was silent again but Cairaeleen caught her looking at her for a small moment before she turned her head away and kept staring at the wall on the left side.
"Do you want to eat or drink something? I could offer you some bread and cheese but I could also cook something for you if you want". Janelle kept staring at the wall and didn't immediately. After a few moments she turned her head towards Cairaeleen and nodded slightly, turning her head back to the wall. Cairaeleen frowned at Janelle's reaction. She seemed to be pretty shy but Cairaeleen didn't like she wasn't speaking with her.
Maybe she is still shocked or just shy… How I would react if I would weak up in an unknown place? In this case I think I my reaction wouldn't be different from hers at first but I would at least speak with my saviour… Let's give her some time, I'm pretty sure sooner or later she will speak with me Cairaeleen thought as she stood up and walked to her storage room. She looked through her supplies and took two piece of meat out of a box, which was filled with ice cubes. She took a small potato sack in the other hand and walked back to her bedroom. Janelle was still sitting on her bed and hadn't moved since she Cairaeleen had left the room. But she had put her upper cloth back on.
"Do you want some to eat some meat with potatoes?" Cairaeleen asked. "I could prepare a nice sauce too" she added as the human stayed silent again. Janelle turned her head and looked at Cairaeleen, she nodded her head slightly and looked back at the wall on the left side. The blood elf sighed and walked to the living room. She placed the rough food in front of the chimney and walked back to the storage room. She came back to the living room with two cocking pots and a pan.
She started to peel the potatoes with a knife while she heat water, in one of these cocking pots, above the fire. She placed six large potatoes in the pot, which was filled with hot water and started to make the sauce. She used onions, butter, flour and a few different kinds of vegetable for it. At last she creased the pan with butter and put the meat in it. She placed it on a metal plate, which could be taken out or placed over the fire to fry something. She fried the meat for over twenty minutes and checked if it was really well-done. After the meal was fully prepared after additional ten minutes. She took two plates, two knives, two forks and a spoon for the sauce out of the storage room. She put the meat, the potatoes and the sauce on the two plates and placed the first plate, with the larger piece of meat, on the bed next to Janelle.
Janelle didn't react at first and she kept staring at the wall. "You can eat it, don't worry it's not poisoned. You look very hungry and you really need to eat something" Cairaeleen said and pricked her index finger between the raven head's rips softly. Janelle moved a few centimeters backwards as the blood elf touched her. Cairaeleen rolled her eyes and signed quietly as she turned her back towards Janelle and sat down. Janelle observed the blood elf eating while she didn't touched the food Cairaeleen had cocked for her. She stared at the juicy and delicious looking food and hesitated at first. After a few minutes she took the fork in her left hand and the knife in her other hand and cut a small piece of meat of. She dipped it in the light sauce and had a taste. Janelle had to admit that it was really delicious. She put a small piece of a potato and a piece of meat on her fork and ate them. It tasted more delicious than just eating the meat with the sauce.
Although Janelle was really hungry she enjoyed her food and did not bolt it down. She looks up from her plate after she was done eating and noticed that Cairaeleen was staring at her with a small smile on her face. A little blush was visible on Janelle's face. "Thanks for the meal" she said quietly, so that it was hearable for the blood elf then she turned her head away and kept staring at the wall.
It was hard for Janelle to talk with strangers, especially with beautiful women. That was the reason why she was single and never had a real relationship with a woman. Back in her home she spends the nights with beautiful women but most of the time she had only one-night-stands with them. These women only wanted to have fun with her, they didn't want a relationship with her. Janelle was tired of these one-night-stands but she was too shy to talk to a woman and ask her for a date. Usually she went to bars and waited until a beauty offered her some drinks and then one thing lead to the other and she ended up in the bed with a beautiful woman. She doesn't want to end up alone, she doesn't want to be the one who doesn't manage to find a real girlfriend and she doesn't want to die alone.
Janelle banished these thought and looked at Cairaeleen shyly, it was hard to keep looking on her without switching her gaze to the floor or to the elf's cleavage. She had to admit that Cairaeleen was really beautiful, she looked like the average blood elf but Janelle knew that she was special. No other blood elf would have taken the risk and bring her to her home. No other elf would have treated her wounds and gave her something to eat. Janelle was still a bit suspicious about the woman's intentions but she knew that she could trust her more than any other blood elf.
Cairaeleen broke the silence by asking "Are you thirsty? I could bring you some water or some cold milk if you want"
The raven head nodded and answered "Water is enough. I don't want to exploit you"
"You don't exploit me" Cairaeleen answered and stood up. She looked at Cairaeleen a last time before she walked out of the room and came back a few minutes later with a brown jug of milk and two brown mugs. She filled both mugs with milk and handed one of them to her guest.
"Are you going to talk to me?" Cairaeleen asked and brought the mug to her lips.
"I guess… yes" the human answered and looked at the blood elf for a small moment before she looked at her own fingernails as she drank the milk. The milk was very delicious not as good as the milk in her homeland but almost as good.
"Let's start with a simple question. Who are you? Don't tell me just your name. I already know it"
"Fine" Janelle sighed "I am a rogue and I was born in Stormwind City in the territory of the Alliance"
"Why are you so far away from your home?" Cairaeleen asked and noticed the sad expression on Janelle's face as she thought about her question. Janelle had pulled her knees to her body and rested her chin on them, her arms embraced her shins.
The human thought for an entire minute and then answered with a sad voice. "My parents were murdered a few years ago by a few robbers. My parents were poor and the murderer took everything they got left before they ran away from our house. I was away on a mission while that happened and then I came back our neighbours told me what had happened. I was so shocked at first that I didn't left my room for almost three days. I had to sell everything valuable what I got left to pay the funeral. I have no other relatives left so I was on my own, since the death of my parents.
I had to work most of the time and do every kind of work I found. I had to clean bathrooms, rob dead bodies and steal whatever I could get, because nobody else helped me. The few friends I got abandoned me and ran away because they don't wanted to be seen with an orphan and mercenary. Before my parents were murdered I worked as a mercenary thanks to my apprenticeship as a rogue. Even with my reward, we had barely manage to get enough food and pay our taxes. I did a few questionable and risky missions to earn enough money. For one job I had to steal something really valuable, but a few guards spotted me and chased me until I managed to shake them off. I noticed that I entered the territory of the blood elves. A few of your guards spotted me and chased me until I hid in a bush. You found me there right?"
Cairaeleen looked at the human, whose eyes were filled with sadness. Cairaeleen was silent for a few moments to process what Janelle had told her. She opened her mouth and spoke after a few minutes. "I'm so sorry to hear that… really… You lost your haul right?"
Janelle looked up and stared in Cairaeleen's beautiful green eyes then she nodded her head and looked back at her fingernails.
"Don't worry I will take care for you" the elf responded. Janelle looked back at her and asked surprised "Really? Would you really do that? You know that they will punish both of us if they find us"
"Yes I will help you no matter what the consequences would be. You are a member of the Alliance that means you are my enemy but… I can't ignore a wounded living being no matter for which side he or she is fighting for" Cairaeleen responded and sat on the bed next to Janelle. Janelle shrunk a few centimeters backwards, which let the elf frown again.
"Thank you very much Cairaeleen" the blood elf smiled as the human said her name for the first time.
"No problem Janelle. You definitely need some new cloths, you can't wear these… rags"
"These RAGS is everything that I have left from my parents. My father gifted them to me on my eighteenth birthday. That was six years ago and I will never wear other clothes"
"Fine, it's your choice. Stormwind City is really far away from Silvermoon City. The item that you had to steal must be really valuable if you have to travel so far away from home to get it. What was it?"
"I don't think I can tell you that although I didn't get it" Janelle responded, barely looking at Cairaeleen. She rolled strands of her hair around her fingers and played with her hair nervously.
"Fine if you don't have to tell me. The question I'm asking myself right now is what we are doing now. I'm pretty sure that you want to go back to Stormwind city right?"
"Nothing is holding me there but I want to go back there as soon as I can. I owe some people money and other stuff. I'm not sure what I will do after that. I haven't told you that but I'm very thankful that you found me and took me to your home, where you took care of me"
"No problem Janelle. I couldn't just let a wounded woman bleed to her death or give them to the guards, who would do with you whatever would come in their dirty minds. Especially not a beautiful woman" Cairaeleen responded and notice the blush in the human's face, who barely managed to keep looking at her while she was playing with her hair again.
"Thank you… you are beautiful too" Janelle whispered and stared at her fingernails.
Cairaeleen smiled and looked at the mechanical clock over her bed. The clock told her that it was two o' clock in the morning. Cairaeleen hadn't noticed that the time had passed in a flash. "I think we really should get some sleep. You can sleep in the bed with me or you sleep alone in the bed and I will sleep on the coach in the living room"
"I don't want to reject you but I would prefer sleeping alone on the couch if you don't mind" Janelle replied.
"You can sleep alone but you are my guest so you will sleep in my bed"
"You don't need to give up your bed for me. I'm fine with sleeping on the couch"
"No you will sleep in my bed, I insist" Cairaeleen responded.
"Fine if it is your wish" Janelle answered with a small smile on her lips. The elf didn't miss that smile, it was a very beautiful smile and although she only saw it for a quick moment she knew that she wanted to see her smiling more often. Cairaeleen walked to the bed. She plumped the pillow and the blanket up and waited until Janelle had laid down onto the bed, then she covered her with the blanket and wished her a good night. Janelle wished her a good night too and smiled shyly before she closed her eyes. Cairaeleen observed the woman until she was sure that she had fallen asleep.
The elf extinguished the fire in the chimney and took the plates and brought them to the bathroom. She cleaned the plates and the cutlery and brought them back in the storage room, after she had dried them. She took a blanket and a pillow out of the storage room and walked to the living room. She placed the pillow on the left side of the couch and laid down, covering herself with the blanket. Cairaeleen thought about the events, which had happened this day and about what would happen in the next few days until she fell asleep.
