Chapter 4
I walked home in a daze.... I honestly don't remember anything for a few hours. My mind was racing.... So many questions. So many, many questions.
I just couldn't comprehend it all.
Eventually I made myself something to eat and crawled into bed.... I think I may have been muttering something about elves and how my head was spinning. I fell asleep and suffered a fitful night, tossing and turning...
As dawn broke and light slowly filtered into my bedroom, I gave up and rose. It was almost 6 AM, I had 2 1/2 hours and I somehow stumbled through a shower and shave, trimming my goatee. I packed a bag with a change of clothes.... I grabbed Jeans and a dress shirt, my toothbrush and toothpaste and threw them and a few protein bars and a bottle of water into a backpack.
I dressed in shorts and t-shirt, threw on a sweatshirt and hopped in the car to go grab some donuts.... Not every day you go to a new realm and meet elves....
I parked my car in my driveway, locked it and headed off to the park...
I got there 20 minutes early.... Thinking I'd be finished with both coffees I grabbed before Itzy showed. But I was wrong, she was already there!
She ran to me and we held each other for a few moments without saying anything. Eventually we both relaxed enough to allow our lips to part.
"I brought coffee and a couple of donuts." I said raising my eyebrows.
She laughed, grabbed the coffee with both hands and peaked over the top at me, a grin on her face, "Thank you!"
Today's outfit was another stunner.... It was... uh.... Little?
It consisted of a shirt and shorts.... And they were both.... Short. The outfit was modelled after one of those cheongsam dresses. The shirt had no sleeves, so her bare shoulders showed from underneath the mandarin collar. The shirt was so short, a slight bit of under boob showed. The shorts were barely hot pants. The outfit was made of beautiful red silk embroidered with golden dragons and lotus flowers. There was gold at all the hems and at her collar, which was cut, almost to the bottom of the shirt.... Three gold straps reached between three sets of buttons, holding it closed.
The shorts rode low on her prominent hips. Her lean abdominal muscles enticing me to keep looking. Her hip bones jutted out sexily above the top of her shorts.... The bottom of the shorts, just barely below the v of her crotch. There were two matching straps and button arrangements below each hip bone. Gold trim set off the red against her pale skin beautifully.
Her hair was up in a messy bun with chop sticks sticking out at odd angles holding it there precariously. Her long neck called to me.
But, before I could act on my impulses, she turned and said over her shoulder, "Come on, I have so much to show you and some more admissions to make. Follow me."
I did, blindly. I was stricken and I knew it. I was acting on impulse and didn't care. If nothing else, I just had to find out, didn't I?
As we stepped into her realm, I was struck by the mist that bled out of the trees into the meadow. There was a dew on the grass.... But, instead of the empty meadow of our last visit, there were three women standing there, waiting for us. Three Elven women, I should say.
They were all beautiful, stunning, really. Just like Itzy, but each looked very different from the others. They were all dressed like schoolgirls....
The first had jet black hair, and palest blue eyes I may have ever seen. She was wearing a gray sweater, over a white dress shirt and a loose white skirt. A black tie disappeared into the v-neck sweater cutely. Her hair was up in pigtails. Her bangs were long, like Itzy's, and hung a little past her shoulders and framed her little button nose beautifully. Her two, full, pink glossed lips formed a little smile as we appeared. She was thicker than the others, very curvy.
The second had auburn hair, a big mess of big freckles across her high cheeks and nose, which had a gold ring in it. Her eyes sparkled a green that reminded me of the ocean... deep and swirled with blue. She was dressed in a green plaid skirt and just a white shirt open to the center of her somewhat substantial cleavage. She wore a simple black satin ribbon tight around her neck, like a chocker. She was the shortest, at maybe 5'2. She was beautifully proportionate, though.
The last was a dark beauty. She was thin, like Itzy, but her skin was a dark, dark brown, almost black. Here hair was black and in tight braids that led back in symmetrical rows to two tight braids that reached all the way to the waist or her dark burgundy skirt, just as short as the other two, mid-thigh. She was wearing a matching burgundy polo shirt. She was the tallest, almost looking me in the eye. Speaking of her eyes, they were a golden, and almond shaped.
All of them wore striped stockings that stopped just above their knees, leaving a few inches of skin showing. Each a matching color to their outfits. Each also wore little flat ballet style slippers.
"Your Highness" they all said at once and bowed slightly.
"Oh, stop it you three!" Itzy exclaimed.
"John," she turned to me, "These are my handmaidens, Foxy, Pixie and Tee."
They all curtsied in unison, and then all three looked up demurely....
"Girls, this is John." Then, after a second, she added sternly, "Behave yourselves." Their demure looks had begun to look a little hungry.
"Yes ma'am." They all replied and tucked the looks away.
I couldn't help myself and blurted out, "Is every elven woman so beautiful?"
All four of them blushed and turned away from me, chuckling.
I blushed and stood there like an idiot with my mouth hanging open. The three girls all fell into line and began walking directly away from us. Itzy pushed my mouth shut as she walked by chuckling.
Once again, I fell in line as well. I followed along and was completely distracted by Itzy's tight little ass in that shiny red silk dew drop's worth of cloth! It swayed and swished and the next thing I knew, we had crested a hill and looked into a narrow mountain pass. The sun had burned off the fog and was swinging brightly now. The space between the two mountains was filled with a stone wall and a giant metal gate.
There were arrow slits in the walls and towers higher up the mountains which held a clear view of anything entering the pass and quite a bit beyond. The gates were open, but there were several soldiers guarding the gates in full armor. As we got closer, I could see that the armor seemed to be made of many small scales. They all had full helmets on, so we could not see anything of their faces, but their eyes.
"Your Highness!" The first one said, and they all stood at attention to either side to let our party pass.
That shook me out of my fog... "Uh, Itzy? How com everyone keeps calling you 'Your Highness'?" I asked as we passed through the gates.
Before she could answer, we were through the gates, and I was distracted again by the view in front of us. The pass opened into a beautiful valley of rolling hills. There were trees and a forest nearest us, but it opened into rolling grassy hills, dotted with farms. Near the center of the valley was a city. I couldn't really see any details from this distance. It looked a lot like a European City. It had that 'old' feel to it.
I was just about to contemplate the walk and how long it might take, when I noticed some sort of tram system to the right of the roadway that led away from the gate. I followed the girls as they headed that way.
It looked to be almost a maglev type design. A round groove sat in the ground, and a train with five cars floated in the groove, perfectly still. A platform led right to the open door of the train car. We walked in, and it was like walking into a Victorian Carriage, only larger, and with large open views on both sides of the car.
There were velvet couches and chairs spread around the car. The floor was carpeted with a very luxurious feeling carpet. There was wood paneling on the walls and the roof of the car was domed. There was brass hardware everywhere that gleamed as if the polish had just been applied.
