Raising his hands defensively, Galen nervously explained, "Necela asked me to be a warrior for her. She wants me to find a group of people, some band of monsters that have done terrible sins and brought the destruction of many, many lives. And there was also something about them being 'the reason the Tree Elves were four numbers short."
At those final words, the Elf's face went blank. Her breathing suddenly became unsteady as a terrified shiver racked her body. At first, she was about to scream at him to not follow through with this mission. To turn his back on a task that he would die trying to accomplish.
But then she remembered his weapon. That enchanted, and loud, forging of metal and wood that spat destruction at anything he pointed it at. How with it he had felled a troll faster th
