Introduction 2

Spring. The sound of the birds filled the air, hidden in the darkened forests of Pumiknod, themselves so ancient even the Elves did not know their origins for certain.

She, and she being Alari, trudged through the forest brush behind her employer, a man she was told to call Master Arduin. For all her respect for his position as a clergy of the Wood, she had a difficult time imagining this quiet and thin man would be what anyone might call "Master". His somewhat rounded ears hardly helped in her views on this matter.

Still, he had the spear, and she didn't, and that sort of power was something Elves knew all too well.

While thinking on her companions was diverting enough, it was not this which caught her attention at last. No, that came from outside of herself, and from the looks of things, nearby.