Can't go back [ESS]

"I'm sure entirely siure how far we're going to have to travel. I've never actually been there, though I have travelled with Ottin before. He's never let anything hurt me at all. I trust him, Glenawing."
She paused, knowing there was someone else moving out there. "Who else is near us, Ottin?"
The Minotaur snorted. "The other guide, the one sent to the elves. One of the elves was sent after all, to talk with our Cheiftan. Can't be helped I suppose. We won't know who they sent, until we get there. The other Minotaur's taking another route in."
he was jogging beside, them, easily keeping up with the horses. "We're not far from the encampment."
Soon though a horn rang out, and it was not a sound that was elven or human. More like the roar of a lion. It was thne they entered the encampment. It seemed busy though.
"What's going on?" Ottin asked a brown haired Minotaur.
"Centaur raiders," grunted the other. "get the visitors somewhere safe."
Ottmin nodded.
Keya's horse easily followed him towards one of the tents.
"Wait in here, I'll be back shortly."

Glenawing stopped, "No they won't harm me Keya thye will recognize me." he stood there and watched hte Centaurs raid the camp and many nodded there heads in respect of him. He did the same to them. He looked at the frightened Minotaurs and looked at his allies. The Minataurs were truely outmatched by the skill of the centaurs and there grace much as the Elves to the HUmans. He looked over to Keya's tent which seemed to have gone untouched by the Centaurs. He looked to see if he could find Gem in this mess and crowd.

He sighed as he waited out the attack fromt he Centaurs. It was not his people who had organised this little strike. Then one of the minds around him caught his attention, and within a second he knew who it was. Glenawing was here? That was not something he had expected.
Though he knew that he himself was not to blame for what happened with Keya, Glen would likely ask, seeing as Gem was his cousin.
Finally though things cleared out and he saw one of the Minotaur coming in his direction. Exiting his tent, he saw Glenawing and Keya do the same moving out to talk to one of the others. A tall black minotaur was moving towards the other two.
He sighed. Then followed as his guide walked towards where the black one stood.
"Drannor will speak to our elders first," Ottin said. "Then tomorrow night, you will speak, Keya."
She nodded.

Glenawing looked at the Minataur, "As the General of the Elves I have every right to attend to Drannor speaking to the elders right?" he looked at Ottin. He as waiting for an answer. He knew Drannor would not expect him to be hear espesilly to come in his meeting with the elders. He cracked his neck impaitently and waited for an answer from his guide. He looked in Drannors direction, he wanted to know who dared to have or convince Gem to Banish Keya. As soon as he would have found out he would either hunt them down or kill them or anything to bring Keya back with him.

Ottin sighed. "I'm sorry but no. They speak with us." He'd known that this was a likely question from at least one of them. "I'll come and get you, Drannor, when the time comes. For now, feel free to wander around, and talk with the others. You're more than welcome to."

Drannor nodded, knowing that he would have to carefully plan the speech that he gave. At least he had some semblence of influence with all the creatures of Nuban, having become one of the long since heard from Druids.
When Ottmin had moved off though, he said, "I've been looking into what caused what happened to Keya, Glenawing. I know who caused it, and it wasn't truly Gem. Just like the time I got framed, someone's controlling her again. Soon as i get back there, I'll be getting rid of them though."
He sighed. "I was not expecting to see you here, though disappearing like that was wrong, concidering the person you beleived to be the reason was not the one responsible for Keya being in the predicament is is now."
"At least I have one skill my father does not have when it comes to the elves. I can forgive and forget things like this," she replied.

"I'll come and dispatch of them personally Drannor, they will feel the sting of my blade and mine alone Drannor tell me who you suspect and they will understand what pain is truely." he waqnted to know who dared to go angainst him and Keya who dared to curropt Gem. He movedhis hand to his sword instictively as a Minataur passed him and relaxed as he moved away. Glenawing looked at Drannor his eyes seemed to house a fire fueled by anger and rage. He waited for an answer. Even if he said no he wouold return to his city and find those who did this.

He shook his head lightly.
"No, you can't. Reason being, they are one of my people. No elf such as yourself Glenawing is allowed in Taror. This is one that I deal with, because they are one of my people. Believe me, they are in deep trouble with me when I get back."
He sighed.
"I would let you, but I can't, not until I officially take over as the king of Taror. Until then, the city ids barred from you. Even I cannot remove that, until then. If you come with me, when the time comes for Sahar and I to head there, you'll be able to enter. Then you can deal with them. I won't do anything to them until then, except perhaps isolate them."

He looked at him and nodded, "As soon as you bring that swine that decided to do this and they will wish death would come to them." he looked over to Keya and sighed, "How is everything back there Drannor? I'm sure our forces are coping with one less general too lead our men to war." he paused, "I have decided to join you and our people in battle even if it means to go against Keya, I promised to protect our people and Gem and I'lll keep that promise." he smiled and patted Drannor on the back calmly and walked to Keya.

He sighed. "It will happen, and they will find themself in trouble. You're going to have to apologise though when you get back, Gem really misses you. She counts you as what seems one of her closest freinds, and finding out you had left has angered her. I doubt she'll forgive you all that easily. Just a heads up for you."
Then he saw one of the minotaur coming back. "It's time, Drannor," he said, then looked at Keya and Glenawing. "You two will wait here. It won't be long before you speak to them, Keya."
Keya nodded. She was nervous, though she knew what she would say to them. "Good luck, Drannor," she said as he left, though she knew that she would speak against him soon. Not that she really wanted to at the moment.

Glenawing
Glenawing nodded at him and was wondering and deciding on whether he should go back with Drannor and speak to Gem of what to do and eventually apoligize. He looked to Keya and smiled and motioned his hand to her to follow him to a corner were thye wouldn't be seen or heard. He leaned against the Wooden wall around the camp and waited for Keya to come to him. He looked up at the starry sky finding familiar stars and constilations. His favorite star was the Northen Star, it was a guide to home and the brightest in the night sky.

"You have to go back. They are your people, though I know you don't want to be away from me. I'll be fine, there is nothing that I would not do for you, but at the moment I have to stay with my people, to help them through what is going to kill many."
She sighed as she wrapped her arms around him. It would never be easy, knowing he was not there with her, where she would be able to talk to him so close.

He nodded and smiled as she put her arms around him, he pulled her closer and rested his head on her shoulder and said, "I`want to be with you too but I have to go." he paused and kissed the nape of her neck, "I love you more then anyone Keya." he paused, "Prepare you people many will not return against us battle tell them to fight with courage and most of all not to be an idiot. Warn them of a warrior in golden and white armor stay clear if they can or they will indeffinately die by my blade.

“I know you do, but its the same for me. I don't to have to fight, but I know I will have to now. Father already told me that he expects Velatha and I to fight.” She sighed. It was something that neither of them wanted to do. “I told him I didn't want to,but he said that we have to since we were both trained.”
She was not pleased about that, and it showed in her face. "I will warn the others about you, but whether they choose to believe me or not is their choice. I will not be a tyrant like my father and force them to believe me."
She was too gentle to be able to do such a thing. "May end up being us fighting each other." She did not want that either. She knew that he could easily kill her. Her brief sparring match against him in Anthatal told her that was certainly true.

His hand moved to the side of her cheek, "If it does come to that I'll let you take me captive before anything else." he moved a strand of hair behind her ears which were slightly pointed. He smiled sadly, "I wish you didn't have to fight, why not just rebel against your father and well take him down, it would decrease the death and it would better for everyone." he kissed her and pulled her closer to him. "I wish this wasn't like this I wish we could just stop the war end all of this without blood shed at this point, I'm tired of the fighting."

It was clear she had thought about that. "How will you know its me? There are three gold dragons on my father side of the battle to come. You could easily mistake Velatha and I for one of the others. When the sun is behind us, you cannot tell us apart. And it will be during the battle."
She sighed. "I suppose I better contact Gem so she knows what I am planning to do when that time comes. Velatha and I often go to Tel. I'll let you know before we head there. Velatha just learnt to blink to places instantaneously and father is not aware of that. He'll give us a few weeks to complete the erand, so we could meet up somewhere, could we not?"
She stopped. "Wouldn't it be easier if you caught me? I can't even beat you in a duel, you're too strong for me. Plus Gem would let you keep an eye on me so i don't try to escape, I would if it was anyone else. I doubt she would want to lose her only other family member other than Ashlere. She would let me live, but my father would kill you if I caught you."

He nodded at her and sighed, "We'll meet up before and I'll capture you, your right your father would kill me." he put his arms around her and sighed, "I'll be leaving soon which I don't want to do at this point, talk to Gem of what your father plans that wawy we can easily stop or capture as many of your forces possible." he moved his hand from her waist to her cheek and kissed her, "Come on the meeting will be starting soon." he took her hand and began to lead her to the center of the camp.

"One which i have to go to alone," she reminded him. That was something she was not the most pleased about. She cared about what she was doing, but she knew that it meant there were going to be a lot of things her father did which she would not agree with, now that she knew what the real elves were like. That much she had gotten out of staying in Anthatal breifly.
"You'll have to catch me in the battle, if its before, well, things will look fishy and he'll strike at all of you without warning. He won't let anyone stand in the way if I've been taken. It's no weakness either."

She sighd, knowing there was so much that could be done at the moment. "We'll figure out something." She smiled at him though. There was so much that had to be done, and she would be in the middle of it all. "We might not be happy that we have to seperate for now, but it'll only be a month perhaps before we meet again for that battle. At least twice between now and then though, I'll be out and about again, so we'll be able to meet up."
She started towards the tent they had been given before. Only a few moments later did Drannor come in and he seemed annoyed by something. She did not ask anything, seeing as Ottin was not not far behind. She left with him, leaving the two elves together.


"That could have been no worse than it was," Drannor sighed. "She'll easily win them over. They knew from the start that the centaurs joined us. I don't think they wanted to hear a word of what I said."

"She seems to have come up with a plan in her own head, which she's going to tell Gem about so she will not be crushed like you said. I have the feeling, from what's going on in her mind about that at the moment, that she's going to tell you as soon as she gets back in here."

He sighed though at the other things going on in his freind's head. "She has a fairly good idea of what she's going to be facing, but even so, I doubt she knows us that well, Gem will likely hear out what she has to say, I know my cousin won't let her be killed off in the battle. That's not something Gem would do."

He sighed. "Gem might be my cousin, but Keya is not. Gem's father is my mother's brother, and her mother is my aunt. My father refuses to have Keya's side of Gem's family in our family, but that will change soon. I don't think that's fair, to have one part of her family as my family, and not the other."

Soon though, they heard footsteps coming back towards them, and Keya entered. One look at what was going on in her head and Drannor knew that the Minotaur had chosen her over them. Still she spoke it outloud, for Glenawing's sake. "The Minotaur chose my father, though they have chosen to fight under my command."

It was clear she was not happy about that. They were efficient fighters. She had not wanted them. "Though I have come up with a plan for the main battle, that will keep me from... getting crushed with the others... as you called it, Glenawing. One that I know that will keep me safe from having that happen. I will tell you of it though in a moment, once I've figured out the last of it."

"I'll see you again soon, Glenawing. Trust me, people trying to take me out is nothing new. When father first met me after I'd been living in Adurna, one of his men threatened me. The man's still on the loose, and this is the first time that any trouble's come because of him. Though I doubt he was behind it. "

She chuckled lightly. "Nothing going to happen to me while you're away. Other than a ton of training that my father wants me to do." She sighed. That was something she was not looking forwards to doing. "I'll let Gem know so she knows what exactly is going to happen in the battle to come. It won't take much on my part to get her that information."

It was something that she was aware she would have to plan carefully for at the moment. "I'll see you again soon, sooner than you think."

Drannor sighed as he looked at Glenawing. "Time to head home I guess. It was good seeing you again Keya. I'll get things sorted out as to what happened back home, I promise you. Somehow I wonder if the guy I caught might be that same chamberlain who threatened you before you met your father for the first time. There's a good chance of it, the human has no respect for humans.. or elves it seems."

"Once we know where one more race stands. The gryphons. I was waiting for you to get back here, I knew you would return before long. The reason I was waiting is because I'm sending you to speak with them. If you'll accept that challenge. I suggest you and Drannor talk though before you go, Glenawing, seeing as he knows the gryphons ways."

She smiled though. "I'm sure that you'll win them over though, seeing as they hate the dwarves. The dwarves are on Lindan Marcos side, and have a habit of raiding the gryphon's dens and smashing their eggs."