Amaranta – Captive of Elf’s King

Couple from the sea

The magic mirror, showed the seabed and all of its miracles. It is similar to the all-seeing eye looked into one corner of the underwater kingdom, then in another. Dagda explained that such mirrors of sea residents are called the eye of a spy, because through them you can look into the human world. And this is a mirror donated by the sea king, opposite looked under the water.

“Is this a gift of courtesy? The Sea king trust you so much, what allows you to pry for his possessions?”

“My cousin rules in the Maritime Kingdom,” Dagda explained. "And he also kidn*pped a mortal, but she doesn't love him." Until. If he is finally disappointed in her, he will flood all coastal states.

“Did you tell him what happens otherwise? What in the immortal kidnappers are also falling in love?”

"He will envy and want to flood us," Dagda joked and put on the magic necklace from the water droplets on the neck of Amararanta. “This is also a gift of the sea king. I will send some jems for him in response. Only ordinary jewels will not be surprised. It will be necessary for something with elfial spells.”

Something like girls-trees, she almost was mentioned, but bit her tongue.

“There are also lucky savage-kidnappers among water spirits? Or did you lie to me that Uriella is happy?”

“I did not lie, and the informants from the underwater world didn’t too.”

“Mermaids? Tritons? Kraken? And who else lives there? Ivein argues that if Uriella would not give up to a fan of the water, then our ship would be prey to huge kraken, who had already looked at him.

“It would not! The kraken felt that the bride was brought to me on the ship. In the magical kingdoms there is a rule, do not attack the selected, intended for some of our people. Especially for the ruler.”

“Then Medea Shai is not familiar with this law.”

“And did she attack you?”

Amaranta thought.

“Not yet.”

“It is good. Otherwise we have to fight with her.”

“Why don't you like to fight? Are you afraid of defeat?” With his power, it was hardly believed.

“Sometimes that the defeat the the victory brings the same bitterness and ashes as defeat.” What does the ashes do? Amaranta remembered the ashes on the carpet and the hill, which was burned, but he did not burn the whole. To arise ashes, you need to burn something or someone.

The necklace from the droplets nicely freshened the skin. It did not grow up, but smoothly lay on her chest. Drops, as it turned out, could change the shape, and the necklace acquired different types.

“The meadow elves from dew droplets could do the same, "Amaranta has already seen what they made.”

“Yes, but gifts from one monarch to another is etiquette.”

“And the transformation of living creatures in the trees is a punishment?”

“Medea Shai is abusing this. She often transformed her rivals in the trees to burn them, rip off the foliage, t*****e them. But in my country, this is an extreme punishment of those mortal who betrayed us.

“Is it a lesson that I need to keep loyalty? Usat back to Angus, and they will catch me to turn into a tree. Or will I turn into a tree right in the hall of the Count Castle?”

Dagda was taken aback.

“Do you want back to Angus?”

“It seems no.”

“That's good.”

“To turn me into a tree, you would not want at all?”

“Alive you are better.”

They are also alive, she recalled, although they are in the shakes of the bark, they can not even move because of this. How to become a fixed tree, but everything to hear and understand, even feel pain when someone breaks down the leaves? An ominous grove from the trees did not go from her head.

“There is a lot of things that can scare a novice. In the future you need to take walks carefully.”

What else does he hide from her? Monsters in cages? Angus also hid these. Judging by their assurances, it was even going to burn them alive with cages. It turns out, everyone has some mystery, which he hides even from his beloved. Some old woman from the village loved to repeat that both men and elves are identical liars. If you are not familiar with the elves personally, you consider her words only as a funny saying.

Curiously, how in the future can change her position? Why is Dagda silent now? Suddenly, with the time, the queen here will be really an insistent Medea Shai, and the favorite will simply survive. An offensive thing, if it happens when the century is already passed and it will be able to return only to the grave of Angus and the Count Castle, which no longer belongs to her.

Of course, she did not want to return home at all. Duga is not the man you can forget. He is an elf. Elves do not cease to love. If those girls who became trees wanted to quit them, there was something wrong. Are there the treacherous women who attract only the richness of the elves, and not they themselves? The world is large, the population is diverse in it. All sorts of characters are found. For someone greed is more important than love.

The golden roses of the castle of Dagda were sprouting in abundance. They stretched along the walls, emitted tapestries and window frames. It costs to approach them, and any golden escape ran on the dress, immediately smashed, the fattened hem, the train and even the corsage edging from gold roses. Therefore, today's blue dress of Amaranta was braided with a golden ornament of lush roses.

“They are already near!” sang a shell, lying next to the mirror among generous gifts of the sea king. “Do you let them go to the ball through the nearest source or through the fountain?”

“How they themselves wish!” Dagda organized the ball to which Uriella was invited with her underwater satellite.

Amaranta was afraid a little. It was a little scary to receive guests who emerge from the fountain. But in the hall it was full of unusual creatures. Who else will you see at the ball of the elves? All guests flew over the floor, make up with sparkling wings, make a variety of magic. Of course, everything is not like as by people. It's timeto her to get used to it.

But when the couple from the sea finally arrived, even the elves on the moment stopped in dance. Whether from squeaming, or given a tribute to courtesy, because guests could be erected into one rank with ambassadors from another state.

It is not known where guests came from: from the lake at the bottom, or from the fountain in the castle, but wet traces under their feet remained.

Her maid-on-honour Uriella came to the ball on hand with a terrible sea being, which she allegedly managed to sincerely love. By the floor, the wet trail from his paw with membranes and from her train was stretched.

"You're still not extreme, once loved an elf," the Infanta commented, fleering towards her shoulder. “Others choose and worse. But as they say, love is blind,  you can love and a monster of waves and sand.

Amaranta was amazed. How did Infanta manage to be here?

“You stayed with Angus?”

I didn’t stay, I was treacherously left!” She said offendly. “I sat in the despondency for several days, I cut down that you won't come back and decided to move here too. By the way, nice Adeline also came here with me.”

“Why did she suddenly be nice?” It seems a capricious Infanta disliked all her girlfriends.

“Since she saved me from the m******e. The friend of the count fell into all the magical creatures, stated that such as we need to withdraw how the Inquisition displays witches, that is, with the fire.

“Theobald?’

“Right?”

“He has a problem with his hand! The hand does not obey him. He beats her about the wall, split into the smallers a bunch of mirrors. And in his hand still sprouts something monstrous. He will have to cut her off!”

“And how is Angus?”

“He drinks unrestrained. The fiery elf, which dreams to survive people from the castle, sees his chance in your husband to take the top over stupid mortals and diligently he sticks it. Its method is to boost, and the volume to knock out his cunning, since the force cannot be taken.

“And you threw Angus at such a moment?”

“Did you really not throw him herself?”

"I'm not a prophit, and you could warn him and give instructions."

“To my prophecies, alas, no one listens. But to hurt me, as it turned out, all the knights in the castle are ready. Such a clever, like me, no one appreciates! This is an arbitrary rule!

“Adeline appreciated you. But how did she find the way here? And it is strange that the guards of the well did not stop her.”

“That redhead elf, which has caught you, helped her. Quentin seems to. He decided that without the mortal girlfriend you would feel among the elves, as in the dungeon.”

“He tried too hard.”

"But for Adeline he provided a service. Your husband almost killed her, confusing with a gold copy. Sketch, probably. But Adeline and herself was not worth climbing into him.”

“Adeline was not in his bedroom by chance?”

“Not at all by chance! Angus is very good. Ladies are going because of him crazy. And you so successfully fled with the elf. The place of the Countess is now vacant. If Angus ever stop drinking and suffering, he can marry ten once again.”

It was unpleasant to hear, but Amaranta kept silent.

Infanta has become even more unrestrained in the language than before. She was offended that she was thrown.

Adeline did not look at the ball. But Uriella danced with her companion. When it was possible to catch Uriella alone, Amaranta immediately approached her. From the outfit of Uriella, traces of moisture remained from the pearl and small shells.

“How do you?”

Uriella did not even answer immediately, but opened the corrugated fan, as if made of liquid shell. Her stand collar also reminded a mixture of shells with corals.

“Here is stuffy!” She complained. “I would like to be in the water.”

“Are you not glad to see me?”

“I am glad, of course, but I don't have relatives here, there is no inheritance too, and under the water I feel myself weightless, as if I need nothing.

Her skin has become too pale. There are something like lace on the eyelids. If Dagda did not take her companion to some negotiations, then Uriella herself would not come to Amaranta. She now does not need anything other than water and miracles of the underwater kingdom.

“Under water you have everything you need?”

“In the underwater kingdom, all my desire were fulfilled.”

Is it she or her empty shell, which settled something from the sea.

Were you kidn*pped from the ship or did you jumped to the Morgen yourself?”

“And you?” Uriella showed sudden intelligence. “The elves kidn*pped you or did you escaped from the castle herself?”

Even if they kidn*pped her, then there was no difference. Her desire is to be here. Dagda only helped her to implement it. Really with Uriella also.

"Never be fond of earthly young man," Uriella admitted. - They are gusty, but quickly cool, they are traitors. With unearthly partner, everything is easier.”

“I would not say.’

Uriella was surprised.

“Are you happy?” questioned Amaranta.

Uriella looked at her puzzled. What is happiness, she seemed to not know. But she was exactly comfortable. After the ball, the crew from the shell with the sea skates was already waiting for the lake at the castle. A couple of sea crashed into it and was dissolved in water.

Amaranth did not even have time to ask anything in detail: whether Morgen and Ureilla got married if they were waking up under water, then how do they happen in the underwater kingdom? In the footsteps left from the maritime guests, fry kept. Instead of the prints of Uriella’s feet, small pearls flicker on the floor. No one except Amaranta was surprised.

For the society of Dagda the pair from the sea were not unusual guests. And is it possible to call them a pair at all? This is a Morgen and a mortal girl! Not a mortal, if she was now with him. Happens!