Chapter One
My name is Coral Marie Modesa. I am one of many from the Order of Advocates for The Humans, or OATH for short. We are a band of elves who, when needed, make ourselves known to humans when they are in danger. So yes, I am an elf, and no we are not short like fairy tales have said. We are exactly the same heights as most humans. I for one am 5 foot even, slim to athletic build with sandy blonde hair and bright eyes. That's really the only difference between us and humans, that and the fact that yes we have pointy ears.
Our job is to protect humans from anything, including themselves. There are just as many elves as there are humans but they don't know about us because we live on an astral plane just outside the human plane. Every elf is assigned a person to watch over until we make sure that he or she is not in danger or a danger to themselves or anyone. Then we got switched to a different person. That is... unless an elf loves in love with the person they are watching over but that person also has to fall in love with them.
I happen to be one of those elves. My charge was to watch over the most gorgeous man I've seen in all my years and I've been around for 210 years. My body is frozen at 24 years old but I have been aging ever since. That's the other thing that makes elves different from humans. We can become mortal if that's what we want. To be able to live with the person we fall in love with, to grow old with that person, have children and grandchildren together, until we die and together. That's one thing that we also get that humans don't, we die when the person we choose to spend the rest of our lives with dies.