Ice Guest
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Amaranta sat and read in the tower. Parchment scrolls, made instead of ink with sparkling gold letters, described the history of the Goddess Danu’s tribes that settled the surrounding lands for the first time. To read was more interesting than to embroider. Amaranta pulled a scroll with texts from the library tower and dragged to her chambers. Some of the scrolls that she dropped along the road flew over her themselves and obediently lay down on the table. Now you can explore the elven history in detail.
Sewing with the hoop was postponed. Golden threads are entangled, but the needle sewed itself. Magic is very convenient. In vain, she doubted that she could use enchanted things for her own pleasure. In the application they were simple and comfortable. And in the chambers of the prisoner, there was better than in the royal.
The pool on the floor was formed suddenly. Where? Water more than if the maid had splash the contents of the jug on the carpet. Although, there are no ordinary maids, alone elves, and they do not allow nestlisses. Water stuck, like whispering:
“The year is passed!”
And it started to drop. The pool appealed to the thin ice. The ice began to c***k and increase until it rises from the floor a clumsy angular figure.
“You!”
“I told you that the servant can not be warned. Ice creature everywhere will find moves and loopholes,” an ice acquaintance with a bridge is shaking with a flint finger before her face. “I see, you did not wait for me.”
"I didn't believe that you remember about me," Amaranta did not lose her self-control. “After all, the whole year has already passed. No my friend at the court in Aluar would not have been waiting for me for so long. Surely, everyone who cared for me a year ago was already slapped on other lanes.”
Or went to another world, because they were all far from young, but it is better not to delve into details. In addition, the empty coquettery of the ice guest was not to hold. He came for the promised. Who would think that a whole year by the elves will fly like a few days?! Amaranta felt annoyance. She believed that here it was not so simple, as in the castle of Angus. After all, the Kingdom of the Hills has protective spells. But the water and ice will find the area everywhere. And now what she can do? How to get out of a delicate position and put a naughty guest? Is it possible to deceive him?
- As you are so easy to form from the water, - Amaranth pretended to be admired by his abilities. First you need to flatter, and then inflate how fool. - Only there is one not docked. Water and ice, in my opinion, not quite the same thing, besides, if you consider the difference in temperatures, it was warm in the tower, a wonderful fireplace burned with gold sparks, and I did not melted the ice.
In short, the magic! Yes, it is not always pleasant. He also noticed an embroidery frame with a self-playing needle and grinned.
“You see, it was clear from the very beginning that you would choose.”
“That is, you has practiced fraud, entering into a deal.”
"Stop breaking around," he touched with his fingers her strands, and they were covered with ice. Amaranta pulled away from him. She did not want to freeze to death, but the snowflakes have already begun to settle on the skin, it is frosting. How they are only taken in his presence.
“I am reading now? Maybe you come tomorrow? And better after another year.”
“There was no such persuasion.”
“Everything can always be corrected if it is for the better.”
He was not so sure of that. The carpet was also covered with the other. Fire in the fireplace frozen in the ice. Well well!
"You get stronger than on the day of our first meeting," Amaranta noted involuntarily.
He shone from complacency as a real iceberg in the ocean.
“We are the strongest in Tuatu de Danan.”
“They warned me in Aluar, do not swim on this mainland because no one is survived here for a long time. Not surprising, once there are you!”
“And who, having arrived, threatened the Union with us?”
“Not with you. With Dagda.”
“Well, we are from his subjects just. Remember, I told you about our king.”
She licked a scroll. And does not matter. He was already covered with a thin crust of ice. The text under it was not to see.
‘So you live in the possession of the king of elves?”
“Not anymore! The kingdom of ice has recently become sovereignty. We are so powerful that they managed to separate from common possessions. Now we are independent and make what we want.’
Amaranta felt trapped herself.
"Okay, you won betting," the heart fastens, she admitted. - And the second spouse of my king appeared and a lady with dragons, that is, a rival with dragons. It would be less than called her queen?”
"I am not so good to own a human language like you,"said the ice elf. “In addition, the vision of the future is always vague and foggy. Not all the details are immediately concerned. I also saw a fragment of your destiny.”
“But the gift of providence is great! Could work out the predictions of fate on the roads. All gypsies would survive. Why do they need, if you are.”
He did not even understand what he was mocking. He is not used to sarcasm. But the trouble in the future would recognize for the mile.
“By the way, you will not tell me how I can destroy a lady with dragons? Rather the Queen with dragons?”
“In no way! She will harm herself.”
“Here it is impossible to believe. She is very stubborn in her wedding plans on the king of elves.”
“She will have another object of l**t,” the ice eyes sparkled, as if the guest saw something in the fog of the future. “A knight! A mortal guy in the immortal suit.”
“It sounds absurd!”
A young guy in armour from scales of the killed dragon. He will be a real love of the queen of fairies.”
“Does he kill all her dragons?”
"No, he doesn’t, he steals the dragon armour to win in the war. The queen will take the winner in captivity, because she will feel a mixture of a dead dragon with the flesh of the most beautiful young man. There will be a long passionate liaison, and then a betrayal. The queen of Fay will be defeated and dead. The young man becomes a real dragon and choose a new queen of fairies. Charming and red. I would also like such a thing!”
He has a language like a rapier from ice. Amaranta was frightened.
"Only not to predict all this to the queen of fairies, otherwise she will go to you with war."
“Already predicted! She got angry and has a war with me,” he was glad. Each his finger is similar to the icy blade. Horn is also an ice. What does he want from her?
“For lost betting, I have the right to demand everything that I wish.”
“And what do you want? I have nothing to take with me, "Amaranta hurried to disappoint him. ”All wealth that is there, belongs not to me, but to the king of elves.”
“I'm rich myself. But I have one whim. I want you to visit me in my Ice State.”
He smiles slyly.
“I frozen there to death.”
“If you make me angry, then yes. I have not beautiful guests for a long time. Ladies do not favor me.
No wonder! But no offended remark regarding his appearance Amaranta did not. And then he still will freeze her to death for it. With such a dangerous guest, it is better to be delicate.
"If Dagda doesn't forbid me, then I will visit you," she promised.
“Will not work!”A sharp ice finger threw right in front of her nose. “We have a persuasion! Its violation will not remain without ill consequences.”
“Well I needed to play a fool and promise him the first thing that would come to mind!” Amaranth scolded herself, on what the light stands. You need to be restrained in words. Never know what they turn.
“Find the track in the footsteps of ice on the grass in the forest behind your hilly kingdom. You will not come for three days, and then the Ice Army will come to the elves with the announcement of the war.”
How everyone loves to fight! Amaranta began to understand the king of the elves, which could not stand the war. Is the dispute can not be solved somehow different? It is necessary to offer an ice creature alternative, but as long as she pondered how to drop it, the guest is already disappeared.
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