Wilderness

Once outside in the wilderness in both search for information on his realm and secretly on the unknown star prophet, Enit walks with his rogue in the deep forest. "I see I have waited far too long to thread on these grounds," Enit confesses mellowly as he starts to feel the breathing of the forest. The moss beneath his feet, the whispers of the trees and the dampness of the night.

"Hmm?" Luna says, not hearing half of what he said. There is a light breeze coming from behind them and the moss they are walking on feels spongy. She still doesn't know why he's so scared.

Now that Enit had been wandering through his own lands for miles, he'd seen nothing out of the ordinary- or so he hoped, and decided to turn his attention towards the star prophet now that he was crossing his own borders which was already checked by Pheon. He hoped he could get one step ahead of Ellarion on the matter- still consistent on the answers being in the forest. Stopping on the path, Enit turned slightly to look at Luna from over his shoulder; "Luna, how would you consider the safety and health of my realm?" while speaking to his friend, he started connecting with his surroundings and preparing for the sky's attention. He needed time to focus his energy.

Luna thinks about the question for a second. "I guess the safety in the built up areas are good but when you say health, do you mean illness or getting attacked?" She asks. She guesses he'll say both and then she would have to say mediocre because of lack of treatment to the people and bandit attacks on small villages. She notices him getting ready to so something so she stops because he may need to concentrate. This is the part that doesn't seize to confuse her.

"Both," Enit says and let out a trembling sigh while turning forward again with closed eyes. The forest around starts to feel more tranquil and sad.

Luna sighs when he says both like she thought. "I hate to say it but it's mediocre. We'll need to add more treatment to citizens and a few guard outposts in a formation that makes it close to multiple villages at once to defend from bandits coming and pillaging the crops." She says. Stars start forming in the sky. It hasn't done that for about 20 years apparently. "Uhh...." Luna says.

"Thank you," Enit says and already has a plan to fill his people's needs, both elven and human. Turning frail in body and strong in mind, the elven king's senses strengthens and his eyes turns misty. A sweep across the skin of his cheeks tells him something is going on further above him. He frowns at the sensation and focuses harder to try and read its sounds. He loses the forest's touches for the higher ones.

Luna raises one of her eyebrows as Enit's face strains. Why does she even bother... The only times he listens is when she brings news to him. She hears movement close by. "Hm?" She says.

Enit makes only to open his eyes and turn over his shoulder frowning at Luna when a disruptive force suddenly gains around him. He lets out a painful scream as a clenching metal wire is wrapped around his arms and upper body, forcing him to step backwards as the sharp wire cuts itself through his fabric and burns the skin on his arms and torso, making the elven king's attempt of freeing himself fail. A group of wild savage believers ambushed them, having the glowing high elf as their target for a sacrifice. Luna was surrounded by five agile wildlings with spears and weird jingles on their light armor. Jumping back and forth while snarling and howling, they surrounded the warrior making her unable to reach the elven king. Enit gasps and looks to Luna, but before he makes to call out to her, a clasping claw of heavy metal shuts around the elf's throat and the king is left barely able to breath. The claw is attached to a metal stick held by a huge troll. The troll grunts before violently forcing the defenseless high elf to the ground in a painful moan. Enit tries to communicate with Luna, but the wildlings jerks the metal at his every move and more wires with hooks are attached to the king's arms and legs. Now having their price all wrapped up, the troll and a few others started to drag him away by the metal wires, while the rest turned to the rogue.

(Ooc: I hope this makes it for you xD Let me know if there's something you want changed.)

By Baby Panda:

It all happens so fast and her first reaction is trying to cut the rope but most of it is wire. She gives up on it and decides she's going to have to kill them. Damn bandits. They must be doing one of the sacrifice things. The crazy bastards. A few giant trolls and humans surround her and start to close in. She slashes a humans neck making them flop on the floor, gasping for air and bleeding out. A troll swipes at her with it's giant club and she blocks most of the damage with her arms but it sends her flying. Another then grabs her by the neck and trying to make her pass out from lack of air. She chokes as she watches the king get dragged away. The troll breathes in her face making her smell his breath like he ate sludge, which he probably did. She stretches her arm out and knifes fly out of her sleeves jabbing into the troll. It drops her and screams out in pain. She unsheathes her thin sword and slashes the trolls legs making it fall over. She finally brings it down by jumping on it's back and stabbing it's head. She looks around to find that they left her and prioritized the king to be sacrificed.

She had cuts and blood all over her but she follows the ground that Enit was dragged along to find the camp. There were small huts and a bonfire in the middle. Enit was still in ropes on the ground next to the fire on a small board. It seems they are already starting. She sneaks through the treeline to get the closest she can to the unconscious king. She squints her eyes and realizes they are eating right now and that Enit is regaining consciousness.

Enit couldn't do much else than finding ways to breathe while being half dragged half carried away by the troll and savages, but now that he had been lying still for an amount of time, he opened his eyes slightly. His desperate sending for any kindhearted creature did not reach farther than the trees around him, who wept at the king's condition. The trees and the blonde elf was so unfamiliar to each other that they had troubles grasping his mental message and send the mortifying cries quickly enough to his kingdom and allies. The trees could only move uneasily to lure the savages away from Luna and the king. Enit was determined to get more in touch with the forest- if he survived that was. He felt the anger towards Ellarion, who had taken his mind of the forest and made him unsure of what to devote his time to, but now he knew: he'd give himself entirely to the forest, and his realm. The sensation of having Luna nearby gave the king strength to stay awake. He wasn't sure of her direction, but hoped she'd come get him soon, having the metal, fire and foul minds of the savages weakening him.

Luna quickly moves in signalling the king to stay quiet. She silently starts to saw the rope away hopefully with nobody noticing but unfortunately this isn't a fairy-tale with there always being a good ending. This is the real world and bad things are bound to happen. A human bandit notices her but stays quiet as he sneaks up behind her. She almost cuts the ropes free until he starts to strangle her and push her towards the fire. It alerts everyone else and suddenly, a man comes out of a hut and shouts stop. "We'll use her to." he says. It seems she is going to be sacrificed too. Her weapons are taken from her while she is still pinned down by multiple people now and then bound to a wooden board. Legs tied and arms tied around the back of her head, she can't really do anything.

Enit calmed as Luna closed in on him, and the elf stayed still as a dead rock watching Luna work on the wire around his torso- it felt like one of the longest waits Enit had to endure this last century. The metal stung his skin and he couldn't wait until it was cut entirely. Unable to make Luna aware of the sneaking savage before it was too late, he let out a painful growl as she was pulled brutally away. He'd instinctively tried to break himself free, but had to give up as the metal bored itself deeper inside his arms. He hadn't felt this helpless for millenniums, and he'd sobbed like an infant had it not been for the fact that he could barely breath as the troll hadn't removed the claw clenching around his throat, he'd just dropped the metal stick on the ground.
Even though the metal made Enit dizzy at the lack of air, he jerked and twitched to fight the metal while witnessing Luna be bound and pushed around like a piece of meat. The royal blonde elf started to get desperate and closed his eyes to channel all his energy to shape shift to a smaller animal- a small white rabbit, but he hadn't done that for ages and was too weakened by the metal's damages. He also made a choice when giving up the shape shifting; he could get away as a rabbit, but refused to leave Luna, who had fought for him with her own life. There was also something about her that had happened a while ago in the forest. Opening his eyes back up to see to her, he tried to call out, but all he made to do was grit his teeth at the stinging pain of the metal already having pushed itself deep inside his skin in both legs and upper body. Was he really going to die like this? Enit's anger made his mind even more blurry and he started desperately to press against the already damaged wire around his torso, only deepening the wounds so he bled through his clothes.

The heat of the fire is intense as she is hoisted above it on the wooden board. Getting the ropes loose would just mean that she falls into the fire now. She struggles, trying to get free anyway as she could probably stop the fire quickly and then get out. Wait. What about Enit? She glances around, looking for the bound king to see him right next to her. "Great." she mutters. This is probably the most embarrassing way to die ever. By some chavs wearing red robes and burning people alive as 'sacrifices'. It only counts as a sacrifice if they are willing to die for the 'god' they are worshiping. That's how she saw it anyway. The boards they are bound to suddenly get closer to the fire. She knew better than to blow it as it will just fuel it more.

The fires increased the burning of the metals decorated around the elven king, and even though it damaged his body and the excited screams from the savages was excruciating, it was barely noticeable for the elven king as his bodily senses were faltering along with his life. He bled from his torso, legs and arms, and the claw around his throat made him unable to move as it dragged him further into unconsciousness. However, the radiating energy pulsing from the sky kept him awake. It kept his mind on Luna, who seemed to receive the pulsating energy. Why would this young rogue receive the crying from the new born stars? Enit was utterly confused as he was dying when the stars was reborn- had he been such a disappointment that the stars doomed him? Enit wanted to look at Luna one last time before he died though, and felt a different kind of warmth when thinking of her and his other creatures. He thought about Pheon, who would have sensed the king's agony by now as they were both connected through all their years together. He sent a warm good bye to the bird, and knew the bird would probably be too late for his rescue. He wished them all well before he slowly started closing his eyes.


(Ooc: Pheon will sense the king's closing in on death and feel a somewhat drawing towards his whereabouts. The closer Enit is to death the higher alarm will sound in Pheon, I imagine. But it's up to you how it goes. And Luna really needs to get things going asap. xD)