Locien Kestal's Story

"Okay boys we're back home!" shouted one of the Queen of Serin's soldiers. They had ridden for days to return to the castle. They managed to trap what they believed to be the Forest Dweller of Dragon Saber wood, one of their most treacherous unexplored woods yet. The excitement on the other soldiers faces were overcast with relief and tiredness from the long journey. That, and the fact their horses had to drag the wagon that bared the forest dweller inside.

It wasn't an uncomfortable cage, as it was covered in the soil of the forest he holds so dear. The Forest dweller looked out through the bars in curiosity, anger, and worry all at the same time. What will happen to his beloved home now that he's away from it? Why is he here near the places where other two legged animals like him dwell? More importantly, where is the guard that confiscated his only link to looking for his own family?

He turned to look at the large wolf that got shoved in the cage with him, as he didn't want to leave without her. "One wonders where we are Eclipse, and more importantly, what to do to get out of this or be more comfortable? What do the two legs want with us?" He asked his companion using the language of wolves. "I mean, has one given offense to the two legs? Or do the two legs want something One has?"

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Meanwhile the soldier that was bearing the forest dweller's blade to the captain of the guard. The sword was a blade that seemed to shine a silver-steel shine with it's wolf like seal at the top of the pommel side of the hilt, and with strange elvish runes in a language the soldier couldn't interpret, but he hoped his captain would... being another member of the Forest Dweller's kind.

He opened the door to the Captain's office and saluted. "Captain Droto, we have the forest dweller, but... it isn't as bestial as we thought it was. It seems to look a lot like a Dark Elf sir. He had a dark elvish sword with him... I thought that you could interpret the blade's runes and see what kind of sword it is... I mean aren't swords like this a Elvish clan sword?" The soldier asked timidly as he felt himself shaking in his boots. The captain was to him, an intimidating man.

Eclipse looked over to Locien with her Crystal blue eyes. THey had come, and strangled her with rope before she could even react. They had done the same to him as she watched helplessly. Now they were shoved into some sort of cage together, and she had to say, it was awful cramped. She scratched at the bars and peeked her head out, hoping to meet eye contact with someone. No such luck. She was happy that Locien talked in the wolven tongue. She could speak what the two leg's language was, but it often times came out garbled, so she preferred the wolven speech.

Still, her vocabulary wasn't that big. "Eclipse do not know. Two legs speak of your sword. Two legs not understand runes. Eclipse no make eye contact, Eclipse hear no thoughts," she said, slowly, thinking out each word before they passed her lips. She stuck her head out again, but the man the man who was talking about the blade was no longer there. She could see the door which he had entered. She turned back to Locien. "Why us captured?" she asked.

Astrice watched from the window as the 'beast' was brought in along with it's pet.He appeared to be a dark elf just alot older even though to humans they looked the same age and bigger probably around his mid forties in elvish. He didn't age like ordinary elves on account of him being raised by humans and getting different substances than a baby elf which left him to appear the same age as he was instead of being older than appearance. It was slightly agitating that the beast was infact one of his own and the pet was just a large wolf. He scowled thinking they thought of dark elves as an evil race. It was one of the few things that angered him.

He heard the door swing open and a soldier stepped in holing a sword. "Captain Droto, we have the forest dweller, but... it isn't as bestial as we thought it was. It seems to look a lot like a Dark Elf sir. He had a dark elvish sword with him... I thought that you could interpret the blade's runes and see what kind of sword it is... I mean aren't swords like this a Elvish clan sword?" Astrice took the sword and looked it over. It was definitely elvish in nature but the runes were past his usual enchantments. "Hm the runes dictate ancient enchantments, older than what I have studied I will have to talk to the beast to see what they mean." he said going past the soldier. "I am going to find Lady Tia and see if I can talk to him alone." he said strongly and the soldier simply nodded.

Locien sniffed the castle air through the bars and coughed visibly in thought. "When the Spirit of the Forest found One, he told One that one day, the two legs would find me for my help. He said One's real family was hunters of darkness and good people. Father fouled up something and mother ran before the time of her whelping with me." Locien tried to explain to Eclipse in the language of wolves, which the guards assumed was all just the Dark elf speaking in barks and intense expressions. "I remember before mother died... She sang a song... it sounded like a hopeful song. Hope is the two legs common language for... my clan name which is written on my blade."

Locien sighed as he looked out again as his mind slowly went back to that time, the only real memory of his true clan, his Mother's final lullaby. He slowly opened his mouth and tried to sing it in the common language. "W-we, are free, like water flow. We are o-one, as we feel.. love?" he tried to sing out in near common tongue of all mortal races. But try as he might Locien couldn't figure out the rest of his mother's final lullaby and howled in frustration.

"This is ridiculous!" he exclaimed again in frustration. "Every time I try to figure that song out it fades Eclipse, fades! And whats more the two legs will think I was trying to utter some ancient forest spell upon them. Ah Fel, I've probably made the situation worse." He started to bow his head but his nose started to twitch as he then sniffed the air. "I smell something Eclipse, some kind of scent... can you make it out?"