Elves. A very proud long-lived race known to have close connections with the nature. They live in an isolated community and rarely make contact with other intelligent races.

That's what the stereotype is. But as would expect, there are those who don't follow it.

For example, Feinerena Horekenez, or Fei for short, is an elf girl born merely ten years ago, an infant in elf years. Naturally, everyone knew her as the little ball of energy, who kept running around and causing trouble.

The reason was simple, her mother died when she was a baby and her father worked as an important council member, meaning he had very little spare time for her. But little Fei sought attention. And the simplest way to get it, was to cause trouble for others. She ended up being lectured every other day about her behavior, but instead of discouraging, it had the opposite effect instead. She kept on wreaking havoc everywhere she went just to be noticed by somebody.

However, everything would change one day...

It all started when Fei doused a guard's head in blue paint and ran away. She managed to lose him and hide in the tree tops.

"Heh... he won't find me here..."

A mischievous grin situated itself on that childish face as Fei watched the ground from behind a leaf cover.

But instead of the guard marching through there, two other adults did. The first one was Fei's father, Renguloron, and the other one was one of the four grand elven magicians. His name... Fei didn't remember.

Seeing those two, Fei did her best to erase her presence and listened to their conversation.

"Predict the future, you say?" Fei's father asked in surprise.

"Indeed... I will continue studying it, but that's what it seems like right now." The magician confirmed his intents whole stroking his beard.

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"With something like that... we can foresee any large monster outbreaks... or even other races waging war... this could be revolutionary." Renguloron's eyes beamed with intensity unusual for an elf.

"No... well..." The magician sighed. "Unfortunately, I could only see few hours into the future at most. I'm not even sure if it's possible to look further than a day or two..." He shook his head in resignation.

"...is that so. That's very unfortunate indeed..." His excitement vanished in an instant.

But there was someone else whose interest didn't falter at all. The one, who silently leaped through the tree tops, following and listening to them.

"Oho.... this sounds fun!"

This would mark the day Fei made a fated decision. She will sneak into that magician's home and look through his research on that magic!

Pranking and angering adults wasn't Fei's only hobby. In fact, she has always been fascinated by magic. Especially magic that would help elevate her pranks to a whole another level. Predicting her victim's movements and setting up traps for them? Yes please.

The elven village is like one big family. Their doors aren't locked and anyone can enter anywhere. But despite this tradition, almost no thefts occur.

Almost.

It's at the times like these, when a new elf is born, that this tradition fails.

"Greater light magic, whatever... dream magic, know that already... ah, prophecy magic... is this it?" Fei picked up the paper and carefully read through it.

"Yes! This is it! Perfect!" Filled with delight, she rolled the paper into a scroll and snuck back out.