Bairrfhionn* and Elleth** scouted the area around the dark cave entrance for days.

The huge old trees around them were quiet.

Even the small stream where the white honeybirds washed their feathers yesterday looked empty from life today.

"A bad omen from the ancestors" , Elleth thought with sadness as her heart pumped wildly in her chest.

Elleth moved closer in her position.

She stepped carefully with her small bare feet between the huge black thorns of the branches where she was hiding for hours.

Her large emerald eyes was looking anxiously towards the dark opening.

The cave was like a hideous dragon mouth full with sharp grey teeth waiting for his prey to come closer.

The young female elf was an epitome of beauty even between her clan , the Forest Daughters.

With shinny wavy purple hair falling over in her olive shoulders and a slender athletic body was a very beautiful image for anyone lucky enough to see her.

If he was able to spot her of course.

She was short in height but a very skillful hunter.

A long scar marked her smooth complexion on the left side of her calf  proved her dangerous encounters with the local wildlife in the past.

Elleth was ready to make her move.

Suddenly she jumped rolling in the ground and ran silently in the position where her male companion, Bairrfhionn was waiting.

He was perfectly camouflaged beneath a net of branches and brown fallen leaves.

She gently touched his darker in skin shoulder.

- "I can't see nothing , she whispered.

The male elf looked at her and nodded his head in agreement.
-But the trucks are everywhere ,she added.
"I have to search this place and i know that you will be a burden if you come with me !
I am going in but YOU are staying here ! " she said giving him a fake angry look.

It was not the first time that she had spoken arrogantly  towards the young male elf but in a matriarchical society a young female being bossy and provocative was very common.

The male elf still hidden and perfectly still nodded silently.

Elleth wore the magical , as she believed, bracelets made from black ferret furs around her ankles and wrists.

Her tribe spiritual leader said that this could protect her from the evil spirits that lurked in the darkness.

She needed reassurance for this mission.

Something that she could use to calm herself even a little bit.

The fear of an ambush was always possible and the night was coming.

Her pointed ears were listening every sound that could mean a possible threat for her or her companion.

"I must be fast ", she thought eagerly.

Next to the hidden male a small green sack was half berried with leaves.

The girl pulled out a small glassy bottle which shined with a unique blue hue like a jewelry.

She emptied the content in her palms with fast determine movements.

It was a golden coloured liquid.

She smeared her face and hands with this sweet tasted liquid made from Yahava plants.

That could cover her scent from the animals of the forest.

Most of them at least , she hoped.

Then she pulled out a crystal which was glowing with a strange soft purple light.

The when she placed it near her heart the light became stronger and a sly smile curved in her lips.

She hid the crystal in her belt and finally she took the final object that she needed from her mission.

It was a special small crossbow with encryptions and symbols of her tribe made from black heart tree.

A accurate and deadly weapon that she had already used in the past.

She adjust it with straps in her back carefully.

She will definitely need it if the creatures were there.

She couldn't surpress a shudder in the thought of her taken from the same monstrous beings.

This creatures took her friend Aaliyah, the Arrow of the Morning , as they called her in her Clan.

After a successful hunt ,where she had killed two of them ,before the dusk and carried their heads back to her people.

But the retreated hunting party didn't made it back to their camp before the nightfall.

She sighed and the pain of that memory returned worst than ever in her mind now.

Tears filled her eyes.

She will avenge them ! She will make them suffer !

Fear ...fear wasn't for the hunters !
Not for her.
Not now at least.

Elleth didn't lose more time.

She ran quickly towards the entrance of the cave and soon she disappeared into the darkness.

*Marksman inCeltic language

** In Tolkien's levish lexicon, Ellon means "elf-man", and Elleth "elf-woman".