Series of Short Unending
stories

Chapter 1

The citadel

In a forsaken word the kingdom of Quinn Zenobia was in a period of peace and prosperity but not for all.

The capital city of Shines kingdom was Alashar.

A magnificent and stunning city built in four circles on the slopes of a large green hill.

The citadel was on the top and two water springs located in the southern and eastern gate of the white city defensive walls.

In each gate huge marble statue's were in the left and right side.

They were usually kings and queens of the forgotten glorious past of the city.

Small white houses, impressive statue's and golden temples in many places of the lower city's is a characteristic image of the city this days.

But the most beautiful buildings is inside the highest levels of the city encircled by light blue stone walls.

There the palace and other high officials live and worked among many small and exotic in design gardens.

Small water springs emerged from everywhere there.

But in the political level changes started to appear.

Democratic ideas spreded and gained supporters among richs and poors people of the city.

Demonstration s in streets for civil rights were the main demand in this period of the Quinn's rule.

Caspian a high and rich political officer and also a merchant with cunning mind started to define the power of monarchy.

He created a secret organisation unlike any other with unknown and dark plan's.

The Hall of Secret Knowledge which was named was only to deceive the agents of the Quinn.

But one of his most secret desires except his main aim for more power was too marry the beautiful Yamila

She was the second child , after the first born Quinn and he was once her teacher.

Quinn Zenobia was a tall, dark haired, woman in appearance

She always wore the finest clothes and joules in her neck and hand's.

Her beautiful but stern face created more fear than joy to her citizens and her manners wasn't always good.

Mature, determined and hot tempered it was destined too rule,as she believed the kingdom with iron first.

And she had the last gryphon egg in her kingdom.

She knew that if this egg hatched she would be accepted as one of the riders in the ancient Gryphons Order.

And then she could fight her enemies even more effective than before.

However her family relationships wasn't very good.

It was not unusual for her to imprisoned her sisters for day's in the higher rooms of her tower's when they showed disobedience towards her.

She also made her own mercenary army in the city the Black Guards of the High Towers for her protection and law enforcement.

Their captain was Aethelwulf a strong northern warrior who was once warlord in the cold north ocean islands.

He always want a higher place in power and Quinn had promised him one of her sisters as her future wife.

And was not the first time that Queen used her sisters in this way.

Quinn has three younger adults sister's and one young teenage boy Valerian.

One of the fairest girls in the royal family was her sister ,the graceful and effused Yamila.

Yamila was an active and athletic princess who often went in archery competitions or bird hunting with her light silver bow.

Unlike other rich women she didn't only seek to live a luxurious life isolated in her palace all the time.
Spoiled since childhood and provided with whatever she wanted with a snap of her fingers eventually felt bored.

She spend a lot of time wandering and discussed with her friends in her huge exotic royal gardens or studied romantic literature in her palace library.

Fair Yamila was not tall in high, with long black hair and smooth chocolate skin like her sisters.

Her light blue eyes was always in fine shadow around her long eyelashes like most of the middle eastern princes.

It was well known that she was one of the most beautiful woman's in the high city.

Delicant, with a scent of cinnamon enveloped her and at times very provocative behaviour despite her royal blood.

She usually walked with a very revealing transparent dress in the Silvers lakes sandy shores with her guards and retinue close behind her.

She needed to satisfy her deep desire to display her shaped body to the illiterate peasants ,laughing from inside her with the surprising looks of the women from lower classes.

It was not uncommon for her and her friend Ghilana to swim completely naked midafternoon ,making the male guards turning their faces away from shame from their princess boldness.

Her alluring appearance was like dream for many poor villagers around ,who often offered her gifts and compliments that satisfied her vanity.

But if Yamila wasn't in good mood she could order the guards to capture and whip the "lascivious peasants "until they bleed and ask for forgiveness humbled once again in front of their future Queen.

But she was on purpose dressed with revealed dresses in order to feed her own vanity and confirm to herself and especially her arrogant sister that there was no other woman alive that could match her in beauty and elegance.

But she always enjoyed humiliating men in her palace when she caught their eye's in her exposed naked flesh.
For her no-one was truly worthy.

*"Ghilana was an refugee young elf woman from a forgotten war in the distant past."

She was also nicknamed nightingale by many people's because of her sweet voice when she sang with her maiden's in the religious ceremonies.

She was brave enough to travel around the kingdom with her horse but always with cautious.

She knew that a kidnap for ransom was always a possible threat.

Warned by Ghilana after her father death to fled as soon as she could for her own safety she planned with her cousin Asher to escape.

Their plan was to sail west taking one ship from the White harbour and reached the grasslands of Sylvan, across the narrow sea.

But because of her love for her beloved city delayed her fled ...
Maybe too long.

Then a request for help came from the emperor Valarian in the East and that changed her plans and put her in other dangerous adventures.

Invaders attacked from the north and started to settle in the empire of Vararian ,the high king of the East

With the help of some of the local dwarf tribes who lived in the forest's and hated his authority the situation became difficult for his armies last year.

His people despite their wealth from other conquered kingdoms were started to give birth only male children for unknown reason's.

The womens became rare.

As a result their population and eventually army decreased dangerously.

The Invaders ,the Free Tribes of the North was nomadic tribes which lived free and independent lives far away in their territories.

But then the emerge of a race of terrible humanoid creatures from underdark made them move south in large hordes.

And for the first time after hundred of year's stories of dragons heard again.

In the unexplored northern rocky costs behind the White Mountains and near the great North Ocean not only amphithere but real dragons returned ,some hunters claimed.

Two rival clans was the intruders main force's.

The Wolverine's a clan of hunters with the famous for their beauty and deadly skills female archers was the first who started the invention.

A second clan from north east plains named Blue Eyes led the largest invasion horde south in a quest for more and more new lands.

However few tribes of smallers rival clans ,like the Black Bones ,preferred to defect towards their enemies and not fight with the other two larger tribes.

And we will see them soon.

Chapter 2

Women for northern tribes was famous in the south for their courage , exceptional beauty and proud attitude towards men of lower social classes or foreigners.

The princess of the North The younger daughter of one of Blue Eyes warlords Callisha was one off the most beautiful and skilled in horse riding women in her tribe.

Callisha was a little taller than southern women's with pale smooth complexion and long fair hair falling in her white shoulders. Alongside with her crystal light blue eyes was a special and rare spacement of the northern tribes beauties. She was a stunning young princess with shaped body and very skilled as horse rider in her light leather armour.

In fact many campaigns of the imperial warrior's happened only to capture some of this fair women's and bring them in the rich palaces and hall's of the south.

The girl was training every day with her bow and arrows and she had already killed some off her enemies in her first scout mission as she rode with her warlike companions.

These enemies was in fact some teenage boys that they caught stealing horses and sheeps from one of her fathers stables and the fierce warrior princess didnt hesitate to kill two of them as they ran away and bring the only surviving boy back in her tribe to be flogged.Callisha put a leash around his neck and drug him all the way to her camp with her horse as the women of her tribe laughed and praised their princess succes in battle.

Eventually she kept the boy as her personal slave.

In this strange for her hot climates usually she rode without her helmet and barefooted.

She wore her worm soft boot's from red foxes fur only when her white smooth feet touched the ground.

But she was still at the age of nineteenth, inexperienced and overconfident about her skills and her fast horse.

In her second scout mission she didn't realise that she was watched from the dark forest.

She was crossing a narrow path in a valley and separated from her fellow warriors whose horse's was too tired follow her quick march.

Suddently she found herself surrounded by ten or more ambushed enemies.

A net fell on her and a rope in front of her horse stopped its steps.

Black armoured soldier's grabbed her from her waist and dragged her by force from her red horse back.

Instantly she was at the hand's of emperor's warriors who were awaiting her hidden in the forest path as the evening sun was going down.

- "Igor ! "she creamed to her horse , which tried to turn in his back legs but it was to late for her ...

Her other few fellow warriors fled away with their horses escaping just in time and unable to save her.

The imperial soldiers has no match in hand too hand combat.

The warriors quickly put her hands behind her back with their strong hand's.

After they bonded her soft wrists with shackles and fettered her dainty bare feet with cold iron chain's that they had ready aside.

For the first time she felt the tightness of the rough cold metal around her skin ...

They also tied the shaped white calf's and knees of the princess with clothes in order to prevent any thoughts of her about an escape attempt.

She wasn't in pain ... they were careful with her .
She was precious because they wanted her as a bed slave.

Then they layed her in a small close carriage with a soft black blanket under her as a mattress.

For first time in her life she was totally helpless.

In the past she stood mounted in front of her captured enemies and laugh at them with her tribe but now the things changed in one socking moment.

After a desperate struggle she realised how useless was to continue to resisting.

In the end she was just exhausted.

Five or six north tribe members men's and women's deserters serving as skirmishers accompanied the soldiers with their horse's.

Some of this mounted women's gathered near her carriage tickling playfully her bare feet from outside laughing and teasing her.

-"Look we catch a cute barefooted princess this time !" mocked her with their sarcastic voices.

But two soldiers soon ordered them to moved to the rear.

After many hours their tall dark captain took the half unconscious Callisha in his arms.

When they reaching the city he caring her over his shoulder as a traditional way too bring captured prisoners after a victory from the city main gate as trophies.

He take her as his slave girl and after offer her to the emperor Valarian.

The woman's of the palace lived in special restricted area in the hurt of the city called "Haram".

Callisha was kept in the emperor's female slave's rooms where many other young and beautiful slave girls , usually kidnapped from all over the empire , were slept also.

The girls all in age of nineteen or sometimes twenties was working, eating and sleeping together.

Girl's with brownie like mocha skin and light black eyes from south kingdoms or white and blond like her from the North.

They lived in this luxurious rooms with fine food and drinks often given to them in bed from other slave's.

Usually children slave's or male servants of lower social classes.

The girls could also choose their own personal servants from them to assist in their everyday needs.

They provide them with the best silky clothes and perfumes from all over the empire for the events.

They also often received gifts like jewellers or precious stones from the emperor himself.

Each one of the girls had her own bathhouse heated with underground pipe's and decorated inside with cyan marble and silver.

Other , male usually slaves or servants worked at nights to prepare the water for them.

The slave girls was also educated more than the free men of the city and definitely more than in their previous life.

They learned them writing and reading in the local hieroglyphic alfabet.

Singing and dancing was part of their everyday education also.

The new environment appeared attractived and many of this girls especially from poor families started to believe that perhaps this fate wasn't so bad after all.

Some they tried to gain the favour of their masters doing things against their own "sister's" as they cold each other.

Snitching and backstabbing was usual inside the Haram.

And the punishments for the girls that accused for even the smallest mistake was severe.

But despite their privileges the women weren't free at all.

It was golden cage.

These beauties especially those who came here recently where all chained together in small groups with fetter's in each of their left ankles every night.

They slept next too each other under the watchful eyes of their guard's.

Even the women who were years in the palace were locked in their rooms at night and shackled with the same way as an reminder of their status.

There rooms had no windows and the heavy doors was locked most of the time.

All of them wore the same purple shift dresses and where bare footed ( as this was the rule for slaves in all the inside halls of the palace ) .

Some of them gain the trust of their masters with their obedience.

And after one year this women used as supervisors of the other girls in the palace.

The most beautiful of them became one of the many wife's of the emperor or his younger brother's.

Other girls married some of the others public officials or officers and
gained some of their freedom's in this way ...

Callisha never made any friendships there.
She hated this place.

She isolated herself from the other girls and her only thought was to escape.

Her escapes however ended only with her captured again few hours later.

Then they usually shackled her again in an isolate room for almost all day.

She didn't find any way to pass the guard's and the dozens of servants who guarded every door in the Haram.

Soon she felt into disfavour.

Now her everyday life was too assist the maids of the palace in some of their light works and serving the soldiers of the emperor in their feasts.

Others girl's usually danced in front of the guests or sang songs in many of the celebration's and gatherings.

But princess pretty feet was always chained in her ankles with a thin shackles to prevent her from her sudden escapes attempts.

The guard's new now how fast she could ran and kept her away from the other woman's as punishment for her indiscipline behaviour.

But in her good luck she was still too precious for the emperor to be punish like the opposite gender male slave's.

In her fair ankles a mystery golden elf bracelet was laying around her light white skin.

It was just a little more down from her elegant well shaped calf's.

And every night it shinned with its own mysterious blue light.

It was a strange blue light, different than anything that the people of the palace had seen before.

This was the only thing that they allow her to keep from her past life.

Sometimes the captured lither beauties where working outside in the famous roof gardens of the impressive Balonia.

Balonia was one of the two main capitals cities of the Imperial state this year's.

Inside the double high reddish walls off the city heavy armed warriors and archers in the towers we're watching every movement of the citizens.

The slaves there were almost half of city's population and rebellions wasn't uncomon.

In the sky four gryphons riders was flying in circles watching the city.

With their huge wing's was one of the larger flying creatures that men's of the east learn to ride and use for war and power.

Callisha was surprised by the new things that everyday saw in her new environment.

She realised however that it was impossible to escape.

But her free spirit never stopped thinking how she could gain again her freedom .

A great victory of her people maybe result in her relish.

Only they now could freed her from her chains.

But her own beauty was her saviour and her doom.

The emperor never allowed pretty girls like Callisha to be released so easily.
Even in exchanges between the war prisoners she was excemted.

But one spring day after almost one year from her capture know figure's of mounted people came in the palace of the emperor.

It was from her tribe riding their proud horses and wearing their traditional thick leather armour's but without any weapons.

They was there for negotiations for her.

She never learn what her tribe and father gave in return.

But instantly she was released from her bonds and riding another horse she followed her tribe which freed her back in the north.

But Callisha wasn't yet safe.

Far away in the borders between her lands and the city that she just left other troubles occurred.

Some Giants war bands riding huge white beasts came from the Grey mountains of the North.

They was starting raiding all kingdoms in the area taking prisoners and killed everything who resisted them.

But this time she had her people in her side.

"And this is the key for every victory" she thought

Chapter 3

Taken by Trolls

Back in Shines Asher ordered to go with army of elite legions lead by nine commanders named The brotherhood of The Red Shord ( *who dislike the Quinn s rule).

They mission was to assist the emperors army.

Yamila escaped from palace and followed secretly Asher in order convince him to defect and escape with her in the west.

In order to meet him she planned to approach the camp at night throw the Dark Forest .

She was wearing her invisible elvish cloak and tried to reach the camp using the darkness as an extra cover.

Her olive complexion made her almost unnoticed in the dark shadows of the trees.

The fallen leaves made no sound under her light step's in the soft grass.

She was a skillful hunter.

-"I have to be close ..." she whispered to herself.

It was not the first time that she was wondering in the forest.

She had one arrow in her left hand and her bow in the other ready to use it in need.

She was moving swiftly like a cat in the shadows but even a shadow can be seen from some creatures of the night.

Suddenly she heard a sharp click when her right feet touched the ground and felt a tight snare around her ankle.

She could felt the tight snare in her skin because she wore only her thin sandals this time.

It was a primitive leg snare trap in the path.

She lost her balance and fell in the soft grass surprised.

As she tried to free her feet she heard hurrying footsteps approaching her from all directions from the buses.

A gung of a dozen trolls appeared and captured her before she could ever have the chance to scream.

She never felt before such a rough hands grapped her from all sides and keeping her down in the wet grass.

She was in still in shock breathing heavily and before she realised what happened she was gagged and taken.

They stole her bow,her sandals and even her royal golden ring that her mother gave to her.

With her fair ankles and thin wrists tied up with soft but strong leather ropes she was carried from a large troll towards their lair in Misty Mountains.

Of course she understood that it was totally vain to resist after a while.

She was kidnapped.

And she understood how dangerous could be to continue fighting back a pack of this horrible creatures.

In a deep cave inside mountain felling helpless but calm princess Yamila tried to find the motives of her kidnappers.

She had to find a way to escape this place.

Yamila find herself in a dark cave room .

As she tried to get up from the mattress that laid her she felt two tight bonds in her bare feet.

Fettered with her ankles locked in black chain's she was unable to make more than two steps towards any direction.

The cold shackles was tightly adjust around the soft complexion
and the metal almost dug in her skin but not painfully at least.

But it was impossible to release herself.

She was a prisoner of the trolls now and totally in their mercy.

Almost no light could come inside and the atmosphere in the cave was hot and dry.

She was only dressed with her green shift which reached down until her knees.

The trolls took any other clothes from her.

Dispute how difficult was the situation she tried too calm down and think how to find a way too deal with this.

She was a princes after all with knowledge and education, she thought.

So when a large cave troll came too inspect his prisoner she tried to speak with him in every language that she knew.

But the ugly troll just checked her bonds and left her without any answer or indication that he understood anything that the pretty princess tried to said.

Trolls were unable to leave their caves in the daylight.

She could heard them speaking in their rough language as they were waiting in the cave for the next night.

After some hours the creatures of the cave sense her presence.

Some was already started to approach her and soon she felt a sadden pain in her left leg.

She was beaten in the calf by some strange serpent of the caves and after few minutes she layed dizzy.

Soon she fainted ,succumbed to the strong power of the venom.

But one troll smaller than the rest decide for some reason to help her.

He covered her wounded feet with some kind of poultice from hebs and kept the other creature's of the cave away from her.

But the troll has noticed her golden feet's bracelet's of the sleeping Yamila a sure indication that she wasn't a low born woman.

He also thought that maybe all this was actually an opportunity for him.

Eventually she woke up again.

The elf girl , as troll call her, started an effort to convince troll to release her.

"- I will give you anything that you want ... please ..."she entry again and again ...

As she learns from the troll it was not the first kidnapped woman that trolls have taken.

Deeper in the cave other two young women were prisoners also.

The emperor of the east paid many golden pieces to buy new slave girls for his palaces.

The troll accepted asking her for gold but after returned with one more request.
The right to sleep with her too if he risked his life to assist her.

Yamila gave him an angry distasteful look but in the end agreed that her honour wasn't so important as her freedom under these circumstances.

The creature eagerly unlocked the shackled feet of the princess and her heart started beating intensely with excitement.

When her feet was released after some effort with the troll key she started thinking how she can find her way out.

She massaged her ankles for a while until she was able to feel ready to run again if needed.

-"I have to movie quick and see if they are any others here " she thought with anxietly.

Her thoughts gone to the other captured woman's inside and silently tried to reach the tunnel where they were as she was told.

The troll didn't follow her but he warned her that other trolls were there also.

And in a sudden turn deeper in cave she saw six large trolls sitting on the ground in a circle and eating something that look like row meat.

They were growling like wild hogs as they devoured hungrily their delitious for them meal.

Behind them two beautiful dark haired girl's probably in the same age like her was laying next too each other.

They were brunettes with a skin colour like hers and they wearing only their dresses .

Their bare feet 's were fettered together as they were laying in the soft sand of the cave.

They looked like that they were there for long time.

She saw them holding each other hands sleeping calmly despite their ugly companions sound's not very far from them.

"They were probably taken from the settlement s near the eastern forests "she thought thinking the stories that she heard recently.

She was deeply moving with the sight of the two helpless women but she couldn't do anything too free them alone.

"I will kill these monsters latter" she thought instantly.

She begging the troll to show her a way to the surface promised to give the troll as many gold as he could carry in his arms for his help.

And her honest eyes showed no lay or cunningness.

The troll guide her throw tunnels in surface and when the creature went inside the cave to make sure that nobody followed them she took her chance to escape.

The princess started running light and swiftly towards the river as a dear .

The rough rocks were digging under her soft soles but she didn't mind that now.

She was free.

At last she reached the river bank of the Ice Stream.

Then for her good luck there was a small raft hidden inside a white trunk willow.

She push her raft in the water and soon Yamila was travelled southern as fast as the flow was taking her .

This stream ended in Isador river and out of the reach of her ugly kidnapper's.

And perhaps towards her dreams for a better life.

Chapter 4

Life in the paths of Tangreen Forest's

Setia was grow up as a child of a small family living inside the Great Forests near the Altar green hills.

But her parents for unknown reasons abandoned her at an age of seventeen.

Three after that as a young woman now she lived with her sister in a circuit of wandering artistes.

They performed famous Anatolian dance's for entertainment in villages and small cities around Isador River.

Isador river until the Southern Sea was in fact only place that you can find small cities and villages with great distances between them.

A vast wildness with forests ,hills and small open grassy plains was crossed only by wandered artists like her and merchants .

All of them moved with carriages and hairy pony's throw ancient muddy paths.

And as Setia grown up she became famous for her exotic beauty and courageous and clever behaviour.

Her jokes and laughter was like the waterfall sound and coins fell as rain in her basket.

She was also an acrobat with flexible body and excellence balance when she performed her amusement performance's.

Her graceful appearance was subject of admiration from everybody.

She was not very tall in high ,with long brown hair , smart green eyes always shaded when she danced, and olive smooth complexion.

In her hands and well shaped ankles and calf's numerous bracelet's s was laying in her light skin ...but one was special.

It was an elvish shinning bracelet ,a mystery gift from her mother when she was child.

Although it didn't look very different from any human bracelet it was crafted from the elf's since the age of the first men in this lands long time ago.

Her purple dress was light for the summer in an pretty style leaving free her pretty legs from her knees and down.

She was usually wearing her traditional open leather sandals when she didn't perform her balance tricks which requires better stability with her bare feet.

But the forest wasn't always safe and she knew that.

Always she had her bow and arrow's ready in her tent ,where she lived with her friend Siena the last few weeks.

Sometimes rumours of wolverines reappearances was reached their ears although nobody take them so serious.

In the past before almost a thousand years this creatures roamed the forests of the area slaying and devouring almost everything during this nights of terror.

But the elven clans that lived there hunted them down killing them until the last one.

And from then a peaceful era started.

But not for long as the mysterious disappearance of the green hooded elf's one century after that , left the forest unguarded.

Some said that they found another land leaving the word of humans in their greedy hands .

This days only some abandoned large wooden halls and old bridges were lefted as evidence that they exist some time long ago.

Others claimed some of them they are still exist hidden in some remote area's and theirs distant choirs can sometimes be heard in the silence of the night.

It was known also that some lonely travellers had disappeared last year in this forests.

But because of robbers fugitives and poachers who was also known that were hidden there this could be explained easily.

In the deepest part of the forest some isolated and hostile centaurs was still surviving and only few merchants had interactions with them.

Animals hunters based in the Isador river came hunting all kind of animals and made them afraid of the human race.

Slowly they became more wild and unapproachable than in the past.

Some of the animals could spoke to humans to like the rare lonely white deer's and wolfs , the guardians of the forest as the elves called them.

But in the last century no-one seen such a special animals and believed extinct for the most of the humans.

In order too provide the merchants with some security in this wild areas a few old soldiers called dark rangers was patrolling the paths and remote stations keeping a watchful eye for any dangers.

They trucked any robbers or thefts that dare too approach the paths of the travellers.

And far away in the routs of blue mountains springs few dark coloured unicorns was still wandering free .

And not only them.

Gryphons made their huge nests in the shinning white cliffs higher up near the mountain white peaks.

This areas was mostly no mans land still wild and unexplored as the vast forests that sometime in the past covered almost all the known word.

This lands in the forests was also known for their beautiful women.

The cave

Chapter 5

Back in the caravan of the circuit one of her fellow dancers of Setia Sadira felt jealous and envy for her success.

She was also a beautiful woman.

Tall , with dark hair and green eyes she was like Setia in appearance but her character was totally different from her.

Sadira was also some kind of distant relative with Setias parents that made her the only known relative of the two sisters.

Her own incomes was always less because of Setias dance's.

But there was an other darker reason for her hidden hate that the two sisters ingnored and only she knew.

She planned to get rid of Setia with a cunning way without the need of kill her and after do the same to her younger sister too.

One morning as their caravan stopped and made camp in a remote forest area Sadira approached Setia.

She told her that she found an amazing cave full of stalagmites and small waterfalls not far from there.

The things in circuit was very calm this days and she didn't had something to do.

Unsuspected she asked her about the place as she was always interested about this natural beauties.

The other day early in the morning started with two pony's from the camp their small trip.

It was late in the afternoon when they reached a small cave entrance.

Sadira let her friend came in and lead her in one of the deepest tunnels of the cave.

At some point they saw a deep gap more than twenty feet deep with smooth surfaces and sharp edges that cut the tunnel path in half.

Inside a deep pool of dark water from some hidden stream was shining inside the gap.

When Sadira came behind her and push her never remembered exactly.

With a scream she fell inside whith a splash and her feet's almost touched the bottom of the pool.

She reached socking wet in the surface.

-"Sadiraaa ... what you are doing !"she shouted frightened to her friend.

She continued to call her but she didn't heard or saw her again.

She swim until the edge of the pool still believing that this must be a bad joke.

After few hours she realised Sadira evil deed and a sudden feeling of panic touched her heart.

What was her motives ?

She will try to harm her younger sister too ?

Determined she took of her sandal's and with her wet shift which was until her knees tried too climb the steep side's with her dainty bare feet.

But she couldn't find any grip to help her climb.

After many attempts exhausted and feeling the cold in all of her olive body she abandoned her vain efforts.

Helpless she grabbed a small gap in the side of the smooth surface of the rock with her hands to rest for a while.

Hours passed and still she couldn't find any way out.

Then suddenly felt something touching her feet.

After she felt she same soft touch playfully moving around , caressed her smooth calf's and bare feet's underneath the dark water.

She didn't know what was it.

This thing was so gently touching her continuously and making her more curious than afraid about that.

Suddenly five or six soft but strong tentacles wrapped tightly around her calf's and ankles.

She shouted helplessly but they instantly dragged her under the surface.

For few seconds that was like hours as she was struggling to free her legs from the creature's grips and tried bravely to hit it in the dozen of it's lighting eye's.

Then as suddenly as they catch her the tentacles left her and she breath heavily when she emerge in the surface.

She was terrified by the creature but still didn't let herself to panicking.

But after a while she calmed down herself as the creature seemed to disappear.

That was probably a large lake octopus that made it lair there , probably from the last winter flood.

Lake octopus sometimes was very curious with humans but usually didn'tt attack to humans.

But she was very tiered and being for too long in the cold water made her feeling all her strengths abandoned her.

Slowly she started to lose her consciousness...

Then suddenly she heard voices from above and she started to call them with a desperate voice.

"I am down here "she was shouting hoping that they will be hear her ...

A rope fell and a dark tall figure gone down and took her carrying her in arms until they went out.

After she felt that someone or something carrying her over his solders placed her softly in the dry grass in the entrance of the cave.

She was almost unconscious when all this happen.

When she woke up few hours after she was alone laying in the soft grass.

Sunset had come eventually in this small valley and the freezing night cold returned again.

She didn't remember who or what was her saviour or why she saved her.

Even more extravagant was his disappearance after that.

He or she left no trace of where he gone.

In few moments she remembered all her adventures before and her though gone to her sister that might was in great danger now.

She stood up again with an effort in her feet's .

In few moments she was running down on the soft grassy path barefooted and towards her camp near the small lakes.

Chapter 6

The trap

In the same time an elf female warrior Sora was secretly served a dark and hideous plan.

She was sent to arrange the disappearance of Yamila closest friend ... Ghilana.

Ghilana was a short for an elf woman but tall for a girl in the human kind.

She was a beautiful female elf with shaped body and light cheerful step.

Ghilana was dressed usualy with a strapless blue dress that reached down until her white knees.

With her pale white complexion, her emotional blue eyes and blond hair she was one of the few beauties who still lived with the humans.

Her race has abandoned this lands long time ago and sailed west to create another kingdom away of the corrupted humans.

Always busy despite the calm and delicate features of her face, she was searching for a rare herb in the caves near the Salman lakes when she sensed another presence near her.

She saw another female elf who seamed to notice her accidentally.

The tall elf was searching for the same rare herbs as she said and offered her help.

For a while the graceful Ghilana had turned her back from her companion.

Shora ,who was the other mysterious elf ,draw out a piece of cotton sucked with a strange hypnotic liquid.

Suddenly she grabbed the girl from behind and held it in her mouth and nose.

Ghilana in sudden peril tried to free herself but Sora was warrior and much stronger than her ...

In the end the liquid made her unconscious faster than her strengths.

The more she was struggling the more weak she was becoming from the strong paralysed smell.

She was helpless and at hers enemy mercy as she layed her in the cave soft sand.

Sora took off her fine white sandals and hid them away in the nearby busses.

After grabbing her feet from her dainty the ankles dragged her slowly in the one side of the cave.

She turned her and started tied up her elegant wrists behind her back with thin but very strong rope used in hunters snares.

Then she tied tightly Ghilana pretty feet's with straps to secure her prisoner.

She tied her shaped ankles and calf's in the same way just to be sure that the girl will not escape with any way.

Now there were no way for her to escape and gaged her quickly with the same piece of cloth in her mouth.

"Pour cute girl" she thought looked at Ghilana and smirked with mockery before she gone.

There was a reason why she didn't kill her...yet ,she thought with a sly smile.

She planed to come back interrogated Gilana about others who maybe opposed the rule of her Quinn or fugitives like her sister.

Ghilana was unconscious for hours.

But when she was finally awake she felt the tight restrained bonds in her hands and feet.

Because of the dark now she was barely able to see the cave walls and stalagmites around her.

She tried to understand what happened.

It was impossible for her even to crawl.

Terror started filling her heart as she understood her position.

In the end exhausted she managed to free her mouth from her gage and called for help.

But no-one replied.

Only her eco reached back in her pointed ears from the silent dark tunnels.

Some evil plan was in action.

Suspicions now started to clear in her mind.

Although she had a athletic flexible body she couldn't release any of her limbs.

In the night rain from outside created a small stream that slowly but steadily filled the tunnel floor with water.

I have to get out of here quickly " she thought looking frightening around.

Latter in the night mosquitoes found her and until the morning her hands,calf's and ankles was scratching her unbearably.

And she was still trapped and unable to untie herself until her last hopes was starting fading.

Then a light appeared deep inside the tunnel.

In the beginning she was afraid.

It was her ?

She came back to kill her or worse take somewhere else ?

But soon she heard strange human like voices approaching her.

Two dwarves minor's appeared and almost fell in front of her as the walked towards the entrance of the cave.

Dispute their surprise they were no villain creature's and they instantly responded in her entreaties cutting her bonds and released her.

She was so happy that she couldn't find words to thanks the two stunning dwarf's who gave her some alcoholic drink that warmed her body.

She didn't believed in her luck.

The two still surprised dwarves led her in the nearest exit and she breathed with relief as she shaw the sunlight again.

But then a thought crossed her mind's.

It was all this a part of a cunning plot against her lady either ?

I had to reach her ... maybe she was in danger ...she thought looking at the dark forest.

And in an instant she was running back in her horse with her bare feet almost touching the soft grassy path.

But her horse wasn't there any more.

Despite the dangerous dark of the moonless night she tried to climb the rocky hill in front of her to see if there's any village near by.

But as she was in hurry she sprained her ankle between two boulders almost before she reached the top.

And the worst her delicate feet trapped now between the heavy rocks.

The pain was sharp and unbearable.

She tried to free her injured leg from the boulders gap.

With her efforts at last she managed to free her feet but she couldn't walk or even more run now at all.

She sat in one fallen tree trunk with her beautiful face in her palms thinking desperately how she could reach her friend in time now.

She felt that this was the darkest hours of her long life.

Suddenly she heard noise behind her and from the thick busses a small dark skinned drow appeared in the moonlight.

He was there watching her for a while hid in the shadows until he decided to speak her.

In the begging the elf girl was afraid but after calming down by the sight of another friendly as he realised elf made her entries in order to help her.

She was exhausted but she didn't gave up her though of doing her duty.

The drows was known for their skills in healing although their had sometimes tricky and unpredictable behaviour.

He offered his help,and without hesitation took gently her white feet in his knees and fondled softly her dainty ankle with his skinny dark finger's.

After carefully he tied up her sprained ankle with some kind of clothe stripes and whispering some words close to her ears he disappeared again in the dark forest.

Chapter 7

The two sisters.

Suddenly in the wilderness Setia heard a woman's voice calling in some distance inside the forest.

It came from distance and as she approached with s strange feeling it became more low and tired.

Her instinct made her run towards the direction of the voice ...

Then she saw her.

A fair young beauty with brownie hair, chocolate complexion and emotional light green eyes was looking in despair in her sudden appearance.

Her hands were tied back around a small tree trunk with ropes and her pretty bare feet's and smooth calf's were tightly bonded as with a kind of hand made rope from cloths.

A gage from her elegant neck was hanging now over her olive solder as she lift her head in her sister sight.

Magdalena looked weak and her calm eyes was starting to close from exhaustion.

As Setia quick kneel and untied her sister bonds.

The two girls without a word cuddle each other crying from happiness and joy as the sunset was felting in the valley.

Then as her sister was softly massaging her ankles Magdalena told her sister how Sadira deceived and trapped her in this remote place.

She told her that Setia fell injured her leg in a cave and need her help too take her back.

Worried about her sister rushed with her until they reach this place where she made her unconscious hitting her from the back.
She tied her up and stole her leather sandals,money and bracelets.

When she decided to live she told her horrible threats about her sister and left her in the mercy off the wolf's or other wild animals.

As they were speaking the night felt and the a cold north wind was starting to blown.

Now it was time too find shelter together until the next morning.

Setia found a small cave near by and cuddled together with her sister head inside her arms they awaited in the cold night for the next day.

They put their bare feet's inside the still hot sand of the cave and dreamed that they were back in their home together and happy.

Epilogue

It was said that the heroes or heroine's in this world was supernatural beings with the strength enough to defeat any evil in their path.

But the truth is that the real heroes is just men and women who didn't gave up or forgot who they were.

The end.