Better to do

Wait a minute, dark elves? Have I gotten into one of these games now? But I liked the thought, I wanted to see her and stopped, I had to look at it. So Amalia stopped too and when I told her that I didn't know about the existence of the dark elves and that I absolutely had to see them because there weren't any in my world, she said to me:

“Well, we'll stay here so you can see her, but listen to me when I say we should go. Dark elves are dangerous if you provoke them! "

I just nodded silently, why is it dangerous? You said the same thing with wolves and hunted them until there were almost no more and now they are under animal protection. But what the heck, maybe they are barbarians and would attack or even kill us for no reason, because they find it amusing or because someone was looking at them funny. Now I had a lump in my throat because what would they do if I stared at them? Or maybe they are just misunderstood, because wolves were killed for no serious reason. Everyone ran past us in confusion and then I saw them, they were riding horses, my jaw dropped down.

What a beauty, there were three of them and their skin was gray-bluish. When they got closer you could see their golden eyes that looked around and they had pointed ears. One had long white shiny silver hair, the other medium-length gray and the third, who rode ahead, had long black hair that had a slight blue sheen. The one with the white hair carried a bow and arrows on his back, the one with the gray hair carried a flail with a very long chain, it seems to have a greater reach. The one with the black hair had a sword, they all wore brown fur as clothing, so they had fur tied on their shins and around their forearms and abdomen, their upper bodies were free.

The black-haired man aroused my curiosity, I don't know why, but he seemed to cast a spell over me with his charisma, his demeanor and his grace. Then I heard next to me:

"Have you seen enough now?"

But I couldn't answer Amalia, I was speechless and firmly on the ground, the sight was just too beautiful. She probably noticed it too and began to pull and tug at me until I fell out of stiffness and looked at her unsuspectingly.

"We have to get out of here, otherwise we'll be killed!" She yelled at me, reluctantly I started moving with her. Suddenly we heard shouts that it was not the dark elves who attacked, but soldiers who had followed them here. They arrested them, locked them in cages like mangy dogs, and then made their camp here.

I noticed Amalia sighing sadly and then asked her why she was sighing.

“They are not animals, you don't have to lock them up, but the soldiers see it differently, if you don't harm them, then dark elves are peaceful too. I don't like to see them being treated like cattle. "

And I thought she didn't like the dark elves because they were dangerous. Apparently it was just a facade, so she was hiding a secret, at least that's what I had a feeling, I can ask her about it later. Because even I didn't like to see the beautiful creatures in cages, they were wild, so they belonged in freedom.

First we went back to her house and sat down to digest the events, we sat for a long time without a word. Suddenly a scream broke the silence, we were startled, one of the dark elves seemed to have screamed. Amalia jumped up and went outside, the scream apparently shaking her. I followed her outside and shuddered when I saw why the dark elf was screaming. A soldier took him out of the cage and knocked him down. It was the black-haired one, despite the humiliation he didn't seem to have lost his pride.

The soldier was just about to say:

"Die, you piece of dirt!", With his sword. When a scream rang out in front of me, it was Amalia, she screamed "Don't!" The soldier looked up and in our direction.

"Who was that?" He shouted, I still noticed how Amalia winced because I was standing behind her. It was quiet, you could only hear the panting of the dark elf lying on the ground in pain. I couldn't let him do something to this nice old lady, someone from the crowd would betray her, that was always the case, also in my home country. Just to look good, someone from the crowd would betray her, so I had to act so that nothing happens to her.

So I walked past her, walked up to the soldier, looked him angrily in the eyes and then passed him to the dark elf, stood protectively in front of him and yelled at the soldier:

"What on earth did he do to you?"

The soldier haunted the ground.

“That does not matter to you. These are animals that must be slaughtered before they slaughter us. So get out of the way, otherwise you will suffer the same fate. "

What an ignorance, one I knew best, these dark elves were like me, different and only because of that so hated. I turned to the dark elf, kneeling beside him. I didn't mean to let him die.

"Have you ever butchered even one person?" I asked him. He looked at me questioningly, he didn't know what to say now, because he certainly did not expect such a reaction.

"Did you? Why did you come here? ”I asked him again to find out what reason she had ended up in this area, to get closer to those who wanted to slaughter her.

“Because we need help. We didn't butcher anyone, we always only defended ourselves when you humans tried to attack us again for no reason. "

Contempt was reflected in his eyes, he has not yet understood that I wanted to help him, but no matter, I had to be careful what I do now, otherwise I might die here and now. But I didn't really care, because I didn't want to just stand around and watch soldiers kill three dark elves just because they felt like it.

I got up again, turned to the soldier and said to him:

“Leave them alone, they haven't harmed you and neither will they. They came here because they need help and you just want to kill them like that? There are enough criminals out there who deserve to die and you want to kill innocents? How pathetic, don't you have anything better to do? "