Wilderness

So I dismounted, which didn't look particularly graceful, as I had never sat on a horse and was therefore unable to dismount. He looked deep into my eyes, a few seconds longer and I would have lost myself in them.

"I can do without dragging you behind me, so you're just a block on our leg that we can't use."

Great, I should have become a clairvoyant by profession, that means saying goodbye. I am allowed to move on by myself, that had to come to this.

“So I'll teach you to ride in a hurry, show you a few tricks on how to defend yourself, should someone attack you and I am not there, and then we'll ride after them. Do you agree? "

But now I've misheard, right? Is he only doing this because I saved his life? A simple thank you would have been enough, but it can't hurt, maybe I'll get to know him that way and he'll get a different opinion of me. If I'm lucky, he even likes me, but I'm not that lucky, because I've rarely been lucky, if not to say not at all. Even if he was annoyed with me, he was kind and patient. I liked him, I just had to be careful not to fall in love with him because I had no chance with a man like him. It's a shame, but that's the way it was.

I nodded to him, then he sat on his horse and then pointed to Storm, so I got on again, which again didn't look particularly elegant, but I didn't care now because nobody saw us here. He turned with his horse, rode around me until he was standing next to me, then showed me how to hold the reins and what to do when I want to ride out or stop when I turn left or right.

We rode around senselessly around the area for a few laps until I got it pretty much and Storm obeyed me. Then he showed me the best way to get up and down again, and then I managed that too, because as difficult and complicated as I thought it was not. I really cheered when I could do more than just ride slowly back and forth, because I galloped with Storm a few longer laps to get a feel for it.

Then he got off his horse and we were both facing each other, he was standing in front of me and I was still on my horse. What he's up to now. Then he came up to me at lightning speed, the expression on his face telling me to take cover, but Moran wasn't angry, I knew that, so I didn't avoid him and stood still. Suddenly he grabbed me, pushed me to the ground, drew his sword from its sheath and held it to my throat.

Now I know what Amalia meant when she said dark elves were dangerous. Because one wrong move on my part and he would cut my throat mercilessly. But I had something he had no idea about, a reason for which I was kept totally mentally unstable when I once told a friend who was no longer a friend afterwards, but joined the people who made me always down. So I didn't tell anyone anymore and just kept it to myself, because at least over the years I only had one girlfriend who knew next to nothing about me, just as I knew nothing about her.

I can impose my will on others by looking deep into the eyes and only thinking about one thing that they should do. I've rarely used this on humans, nor has it always worked on humans, but it mostly worked on cats and dogs.

The only problem that remains now is that Moran is neither a human nor an animal, I don't know if it is even possible with dark elves, but try makes you smart. I looked deep into his eyes, they were beautiful, I had to be careful not to get lost in them, because then I could no longer use my ability. There was only one sentence left in my mind:

Drop the sword!

In my mind, I kept throwing those four words around his ears. We stayed in this position for a few minutes and then the sword fell to the ground.

It's worked out! I don't believe it, it actually worked. He looked confused, looked at his own hand in horror, looking for answers, he looked so helpless, so I honestly told him what just happened because I felt he should know so he knew who with he was traveling around.

"You can read and control minds?" He asked, horrified. He had got it wrong too, so I explained it to him again.

“No, I can impose my will on others, which doesn't always work, mostly only with animals. I didn't expect you to really drop the sword. Since I use this skill very rarely, I never know if it works, but I seem to have concentrated enough. I wasn't really scared of you, but how else could I have defended myself? This is my ability and I wanted you to know about it, maybe I can help you with it. "

Instead of attacking me again, he showed me a few tricks on how to defend myself before I had to use my ability because it didn't always work. He also showed me how I could free myself if someone should grab me from behind. With a few tricks he touched my skin, his hands were very soft, every time, with even the slightest touch, a thunderstorm ran through my body.

I felt the tingling sensation in my whole body down to the tips of my toes and fingers, that it was like a thunderstorm, all that was missing was the thunder, then the thunderstorm would be perfect. I kept looking into his eyes, paying attention to his every move, taking in what he was trying to teach me. There was something attractive about him, but I didn't know what. Did I fall in love? Oh, no, please don't, because I was lost, he would never return it.

After I understood everything and could then use the tricks, I had to promise him something regarding my ability and I promised him that I would never again impose my will on him, no matter what he was about to do. I just hoped that he would believe my promise too, because in the wilderness it is very important to trust the other, because there you have to be able to rely on each individual. I was happy to give him the promise, because I basically didn't like manipulating others, because that's exactly what it was when you forced someone else's will. He tore me from my thoughts by patting me on the shoulder.

“You did well, then we can ride off now and catch up with the others. Say you're cold, you're shaking all over. "