Stranger part 2

- Ru'El? - Aueli's disbelieving voice was heard, her gaze continued to wander over the light elf's face.

Seeing his face, she now understood why his voice was familiar to her. With fear, the girl began to look around, waiting for the appearance of another figure that was dear to her.

- Do you know him? Is he one of the robbers? - Keirin asked wanting to hear confirmation from the girl.

Turning her gaze to her, Auel saw misunderstandings on the face of the light elf, but the girl could not say anything.

She only had the strength to shake her head and lose consciousness. Auel experienced the meeting with the stranger too much that she lost all strength while sitting in the tent. She light elf looked from the tied elf to the girl and shook her head.

She understood that Auel had been keeping it to herself all the time, and when she saw the stranger at night, emotions and feelings burst out.

Having dragged the girl onto the bed on which Keirin was lying, the light elf began to examine the light elf. She did not try to remove his armor; if he was not an enemy, then removing both armor and weapons was an insult to the warrior.

Inspecting the armor, she saw a coat of arms that did not fit the light elven coats of arms, did the local baron really decide to send guards?

If there are other guards, where are they? Was Ru'El a scout who was supposed to return to the others and report what he saw in the camp?

Keirin did not untie the light elf; she doubted that he would come to his senses in a good mood and would not try to take up arms.

The pain that she felt gradually became less and less, leaning on the sword and making sure that the rest of the girls were all right and returning to the tent, she saw that Auel was the first to come to her senses.

It was clear in her red eyes that she did not believe what she saw in front of her; Keirin did not know whether this light elf was more than a friend to her or not.

The light elf saw that the girl tried not to look at her and lowered her eyes when their eyes met. Both had questions for the light elf; one was worried about her father and how she met him, and the second was worried about the question of who sent him here, the baron or someone else.

Keirin did not try to start a conversation with the girl; in her opinion, if she wanted to discuss something, Auel would have contacted her.

As time passed, it began to get light, rays were visible on the street, marking the beginning of the day.

Sounds were heard from the bound light elf, the girls saw him slowly open his eyes and begin to carefully look around.

His gaze was still sleepy, but when he saw Auel first, the sleep disappeared from his gaze. He tried to say something or move, but he couldn't.

Not understanding what was bothering him and looking down, he saw that he was tied up and trying to say something to Auel through the ropes, but the words were incomprehensible.

Auel, who was sitting on the bed, looked at Ru'El without blinking, she looked over his entire body and armor, wanting to make sure that it was him and not a light elf similar to him.

She saw the wounds that she inflicted on him at night when she mistook him for a robber and mistook everything for a dream.

- Are you sure we can remove the Auel rope? Do you trust him that he won't try to do something stupid? - The serious voice of Keirin was heard, who looked attentively at the girl and pulled her out of her memories.

The girl looked at the voice and nodded, she had no words or assumptions why Ru'El was in the camp.

She was worried about her father and that something happened to him after it became known that she was captured.

The light elf tried to turn his head towards the speaker, but the ropes began to tighten more and more, realizing that if he continued, he would achieve nothing even with his dexterity of a light elf, he froze.

- The girl called you Ru'El and if you don't want to die quickly, behave well and maybe I'll free you. - Keirin turned to the light elf, coming closer and allowing him to see her.

From his face, Keirin noticed a strange expression and look when he was able to see her. Using the fingers of one hand, removing the rope from the light elf's mouth and with the other hand, touching the tip of the sword to Ru'El's neck.

If he tries to scream, his voice will stop faster than he can utter even a weak cry, pulling out the rope and standing next to him, touching the tip of the blade to his throat.

But the light elf continued to try to look at her, but due to the fact that he was tied up, he was not able to turn his head and look at the light elf.

- Maybe he can't speak Auel? - She light elf asked the girl.

Auel didn't understand why the light elf was behaving this way; before he saw Keirin, he tried to say something, but now he was silent.

Did they know each other? A thought flashed through the girl's head, but remembering how Keirin reacted to Ru'El, it was not clear that she knew him.

When she wanted to say her suspicions that the light elf knew her Keirin, he spoke.

- I can speak Your Majesty, I just never expected to see my future queen here. - The hoarse voice of Ru'El was heard, who continued to try to turn his head.

The girls froze at the words of the light elf, Auel looked at Keirin, not understanding what Ru'El meant by addressing her as his future queen.

The light elf thought that she had misheard, and the light elf repeated her previously spoken words.

- Do we know you? - Keirin asked the bound light elf, puzzled, trying to examine his face for signs of recognition.

She did not recognize the light elf in front of her, but unlike her, he nodded to her, confirming that they knew each other.

Auel looked from Ru'El to Keirin, expecting one of them to say that this was not true. The girl managed to recognize the light elf as a servant of the half-elf who was now absent; she suspected that the light elf had injured his head when Keirin hit him on the helmet.

- How do we know each other? I don't recognize your face, you don't look like a noble's son. - Keirin asked in a thoughtful voice, trying to remember who Ru'El was similar to.

She did not pay attention to the lost look of Auel, who looked from the light elf to Keirin. A light chuckle was heard and a sad smile appeared on the face that Auel knew.

- Your Majesty, I would be proud as a light elf if one of the princesses remembered the son of the chief keeper of the stables at the palace. - The light elf answered the girl with pain in his voice.

Auel well remembered the story of how his family abandoned him because of his lack of talent for magic.

When he arrived to her father he looked lost and did not look like one of the proud race of light elves.

He tried not to say what family he was from, only that his father worked for someone from a noble family in the kingdom of light elves.

- Are you the son of Anlu'Min? But how did you end up here so far from home and don't address me with titles that I have been deprived of for a long time. - Keirin asked in surprise, untying the ropes and continued. - Now I am a servant, you can address me by name without fear of death.

Making sure that the light elf was free, the girl moved away and turned her gaze to Auel, who was watching her and there was misunderstanding in her gaze; she already wanted to ask Keirin, when she raised her hand up and promised to tell everything she could, but later.

The sounds of metal were heard and the girls turned their gaze to the light elf; during the moment when he was tied up, his muscles managed to freeze and he had to exchange them, while making sounds of armor.

Having stretched his muscles and inspected the tent, he did not find a place where he sat down and did not destroy a chair or bed, leaning against the same support where he was tied, he sank down to the sounds of his armor.

- Yours.. Keirin, at that time you had already left the kingdoms of the light elves and were not present when they discovered that I lacked magic and my family abandoned me. For a long time I wandered through kingdoms and empires until I found the family that accepted me without magic. - Ru'El spoke with different emotions in his voice, looking from Keirin to the girl who was sitting on the bed.

The girl felt a warm gaze and the last words addressed to her and her father, but after what she had gone through, Auel felt unworthy of such an attitude from Ru'El.

Looking down at the bed, she did not dare to look into his eyes; she was no longer the same as before and was no longer pure, even if it was not of her own free will that she tried to accept her position.

Listening to the voice of the light elf, Keirin saw that he had strong feelings for Auel, but the girl avoided looking at him in every possible way.

She didn't know what thoughts were in the human girl's head, but she assumed that they weren't very good. Keirin saw how pain filled Ru'El's eyes when the girl didn't look at him.