A young elven boy and his sister are in the forest. The girl has just killed a deer and is explaining to her younger brother that elves give back to nature as much as they take.
Suddenly they hear a groaning. Going to investigate they see a stranger. A man dressed in a black suit and tie, wearing a rolex, and carrying a briefcase shambles forward. "Brains! Brains!" It grows in a low and pained voice.
The young girl has never seen anything like this. She has heard of humans, but they live far away, and even humans would not wear such outlandish clothing.
it advances slowly. The girl shielding her brother shoots an arrow into the foul creature. Brains it says, still advancing. The young elf maiden shoots six more times, but noting stops it. From the forest she hears more shuffling. "Brains!" "Brains!" "Brains!" The noise is all around her.
She grabs her younger brother & runs. Through the deep and twisting eld forest. This is a holy place to the elves, but she feels in her heart that these shambling menaces are dessecrating the forest. "Brains!" these words rise like a tide washing over the normal forest sounds.
Then she trips. Her Brother falls. She tries to get up but her leg is hurt. Sprained. A strange female shaped figure in a Vera Wang couture dress shambles forward, "Brains!" It says.
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Knowing her position is hopeless, she tries one last desperate gamble. Calling to the spirits of the forest, she begs for their aid and then uses the simple flame spell that the village mage had been trying to teach her in order to temp her to become his apprentice.
She feels the mana take hold, and the tip of the arrow catches fire. She aims at the slowly plodding woman and looses her arrow. It flies faster than the wind and stikes the evil menacing woman through the eye. The woman catches fire, like she was an old died out corps or a stack of birtch bark tinder.
The shy elf lass's vision turns blue words in a script she knows as Elvish appear in her head.
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What does this mean! She gathers her brother in her arms and begins to run, ignoring the pain coursing through her leg, through the forest, back to her village, to warn the Elders.