Chapter 58

Lillian made her way into the cavern and Tanka was keeping watch, while everyone was asleep. Tanka pulled Lillian into a giant bear hug, her feet dangled in their from his 6'5" stature.

" thank the divine that you are fine" Tanka said with a smile on his face, he heard sobbing coming from Thea again and taps her with his foot. She rolls over, but the crying has stopped and after a few minutes she's begging someone not to leave her.

" shes been having nightmares everytime she sleeps, I thought to watch her since shes slowly snapping and thinks you'll die" Tanka said

Lillian bends down to look at Thea, she wipes away some dirt on her cheek and raises back up.

" I met a druid and other races inside there, Fauna said I need some more sap, but this time from the main trunk and shesmymate" Lillian said while saying the last part real quick.

Tanka had a confused look on his face, he scratched the nape of his neck with his finger and looks at Lillian.

(" these Alphas and their mates") Tanks thought to himself, he smiles at Lillian.

" the druid..... It says shes evil and was cast out by her people, hundreds of thousands of years old" Tanka said pointing at the journal that Theas grand father wrote.

" No shes not that old, maybe half and the humans killed her people. The dark elf priestess saved the ones enslaved and entrusted Fauna to build this place for the other races" Lillian said while explaining the different races of Imps, tree folk, sprites and so on.

Thea slowly turns around opening her eyes, she sees Lillian and quickly runs to her, she looks over her body. Raising her shirt to see the wound is gone, she traces her finger around the spot and smiles weakly.

" I thought I'd never see you again, I was worried so much and I love you" Thea said while gently kissing Lillian, she pulls her deeper into the hug, Lillian smiles while hugging Thea tightly.

Loud screams came from the other side of the tunnel, Lillian looks at Tanka and he grabs Thea.

" wait here!! Something happened, I'll be back" Lillian said

Lillian runs back through the tunnel, when she sees Fauna raise her arms and hundreds of vines impaled her people. A thought ran through her head or a second, but then she knows something must have happened for Fauna to do this.

Lillian walks closer to a body, what looks like an elf, he has no hair or eyebrows and a deep hole through his chest and no blood is leaking out. She bends down closer looking at the black sap that is slowly dripping out of his mouth.

" what the fuck " Lillian said while pulling her dagger out when she seen the tip of something that made her think of a long appendage with a long, sharp tooth or nail at the tip. When she used her dagger to open his mouth, she seen the Appendage with a two inch pointed tip, she looks closer at it and right at the base of the tooth was a small opening of where the thick black fluid came from.

" Eww" Lillian said while the stagnant rotting smell that took her breath away, she pulls back her dagger and looks at the hole in the chest cavity and takes her knife pressing into the blackened insides of the creature.

(" it's as if its been dead long before this") Lillian thought, while she was analyzing it, she didn't see its hand slightly moving.

The creatures dead eyes opened startling her, it lunged at her and a small vine pierced through its head. The appendage still shot out toward her, it kept doubling its length with each thrust and Lillian quickly moved away from it. Fauna runs over cupping Lillians cheeks, she looks her over for any injuries and finds none.

" what the hell is that thing" Lillian said pointing to the creature on the ground, Fauna shakes her head and looks around at the corpses of the things that use to be her people.