A Story

He just smiled at me and walked to his small.. house, is what you could call it I guess?

A few minutes later did he come back with a huge book who seemed to have been staying at the same place for a few years, the dust was really good visible.

He took his seat next to me again and opened the book.

Pictures? On every page was a different photo and all of them were Dark Fey!

"W-What is this?"

He smiled at me yet again however his eyes looked very sad.

"These were my dear friends I made a long time ago, they meant everything to me you know? But… to all happy things comes always a end sadly"

I could see in his eyes that he was grieving about just seeing those pictures.

"You don't have to talk about them if it hurts you so much…" I couldn't help my sympathy for this old man, which was new to me.

"No.. I want you to hear a bit of the story, it might be of help to you"

He took a deep breath and with his finger did he follow the contours of a face of a woman.

"A very long time ago when I was still a young boy was it my dream to join the army, I worked everyday as hard as I could to become strong enough to join them. It took me years but when I turned 19 was I ready for it. I went to the castle and told them that I was ready to become a soldier for the kingdome, you must know that it was hard to get accepted there… oh well after a year of study with people of my age did I really become a soldier, however I didn't stop there. I… I wanted to get higher, I wanted to make my mother proud…"

Slowly started the tears to stream down on his face, I wanted to wipe them away however I could not touch him. His whole mindset was back in those days so I waited patiently for him to start talking.

"It took me 3 years to become a general… and I was proud of it, I was the youngest general ever at that moment, I did whatever they threw at me and I started to get higher in the ranks however. When I was 28 the Dark Fey started to attack us, we were too close to their territory, I was sent together with 3,000 thousand soldiers to stop their attacks however I lost… No soldier survived it and if they did they would be useless to fight further, I was in the camp back then, when a soldier reported to me what was happening I went there as fast as I could but I was to late… the Dark Fey were gone and so were my dear soldiers who all died."

"I.. I decided that I would kill them, I wanted the Dark Fey dead even if it was the last thing I would do, I took some food and medicine and took a horse, I was inside their territory and I launched my attacks, It worked,I took them with surprise and they started to die one by one. I was happy that I could at least avenge some of my fallen soldiers however I got captured when the stronger ones came, they didn't kill me but they took me to their home. They took me to their Clan Leaders… They wanted to know why I did it, I told them that they killed the people that I was responsible for. They wanted me dead because of what I did however there was one who didn't wanted me dead… She was like an angel to me, ha! And I was the devil for her. She told the other Clan Leaders that she would take me in and she said that she wanted to see herself if I was right to take those lives…

She took care of my wounds and started to show me around in her Clan, she explained me what Dark Feys were and how I could recognize them, in return did I tell her about humans and how we worked with our hands instead of using magic like they did. I could see that she found us humans interesting… However I found myself falling for her more and more, it didn't matter how hard I fighted against it I just couldn't put this feeling away. I stayed there way longer than planned because I just couldn't let her go, and at some point did she get the same. Her clan was very easy with accepting me and so did I become the first human friend of the Dark Fey… and so did I also get married to the woman who I loved the most…"