Thread: Reverence and Decree

She felt the groan roll through the woman more than heard it. Looking over at the woman's wrists she frowned. It wouldn't do for the woman to lose her hands. Debating the problem she looked the woman over. There wasn't much for her to use of her clothing and Ellifain almost considered leaving the problem be. Muttering to herself in a barely audible voice she moved off of the trail that had been leading to Amir. Finding a stump, she set the woman on it carefully and said Hold still. Her voice regaining some of its usual tone she continued, I'm going to replace the bow string around your wrists. Don't struggle further or you may hurt yourself gravely. Moving slowly so as not to startle the woman into further action, she gripped the edge of her own forest green shirt, the fabric tightly hugging her curved frame. Ellifain was lithe like all elves and took pride in her body. Not the kind of pride some women seemed to take when it concerned the effects it had on other people, but the kind of pride that came from years of developing her body and her techniques to the point of near perfection. She was well proportioned and her body toned without being muscled. She didn't have the hard athletic look, but more one of grace. Tugging at her shirt across her torso, she ripped the fabric across her midriff and around her back. and now I have a child's shirt. she thought to herself as she folded the fabric lengthwise. Walking around the woman she slowly untied the string and stuffed it into her bag. Taking the woman's wrists in hand she massaged them for a moment to see what damage had been done. Confirming it was nothing major, she wrapped the length of her shirt around them and tied them tightly together. Making sure the woman couldn't get at the knot, she then picked her up once more. She wondered what had caused her to take the woman in the first place. She could use the woman as a bargaining piece in order to free the remainder of her people, the knowledge that she knew of it maybe more than enough to get it to come to an end. She played out several possible scenarios in her mind and could only come to the conclusion that this was the only way to go now. There was no going back. The second she arrived in Amir with the woman, she would be stuck along this course. If it got her extrisiced from her people, then that was fine as long as the current horrors stopped. As they drew near the city of Amir she noticed several elves in the treetops looking down at her as she passed. They were generally unnoticed, so quiet and still that they were often overlooked until they drew attention to themselves. Normally there would be some chatter at her approach being she was an elf, however this wasn't a normal time. She had arrived in the city with a captive. That was never a normal thing for an elf, save in the bedroom on occasion. Elves may occasionally use force or take a hostage if the situation was needed, but they never brought them to an elven city. And the act of taking someone against their will was something that was only done on extreme measures. Elves respected freedom, and would rather kill a person than have to take that freedom from them. She made her way below the outposts and slowly the city proper began to appear in the trees above, a few buildings on the ground around some of the larger trees and built into her trunk. Slowing her pace, she let her captive get a look at the city. A small reward for not causing any trouble. Nearing a particularly large tree with a trunk nearly ten yards across, she looked up. Lift! she called up, her voice ringing out in a melodious tone, indicating she wouldn't be able to run the tree tops for one reason or another. At first she thought the elves above wouldn't drop a lift for her to scale, but after a moment she could see the small platform with a ladder sliding down. She heard a voice ring out from above Don't worry the climb! We will pull. We need to reset the lift due to a hard load. Your weight will do that for us! She knew they were just being logical and not insulting, and she was carrying extra weight, and simply stepped on to the lift. Slowly, she felt the lift get hoisted and felt the pullies of the level reset as the lift flattend beneath her weight.