Silvertree Chronicles Book One, Chapter 7, The World Awaits (Dragon Wars Enhanced Edition)
Synopsis: The life of Eldar Silvertree from graduation at the prestigious Elven Academy and desires to leave it behind; only to return full circle to shake Elven Society to the core.
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Authors warning: This section contains scenes of incest between sisters.
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I do it to tell the story, for those who wish to read them. I originally submitted this story back in mid-2017 to mid-2018. I have worked to try and improve my writing style while struggling with this issue. I have added some editing software and written a few other stories. Now I am revising and editing this earlier work to try and bring it up to a higher standard from what I have managed to learn over the last few years.
Chapter 7
Wedding Plan and Sisterly Love
The next 10 days went off with no issues. Except for being stranded for 3 days due to heavy rains stopping the journey. That was surprising. They delivered the cargo and agreed to meet back at the stables at the morning meal 2 days from now.
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Hunter went to the Ambassador's quarters and delivered the package. The human court wizard was there as well as he was a part-time lover of the Ambassador. The wizard, Vexxor Crown, was a 'trusted' advisor to the King and he kept an eye on things for his 'pet,' Lord Baramis. On anything that happened in the human court. He was surprised to see this document get through.
The Ambassador looked over, "Where is Charlie Silver?"
Hunter chuckled, "We ran into a couple of complications in the delivery. We added a new crew member who helped to save our asses. Eldar Silvertree, an impure Blade Singer right out of the Academy and the son of the diplomat Heliar. He is a talented fighter and helped to save our asses from the mercenaries who attacked us.
He kept us from losing anyone in our group to tell you the truth. He also fell in love with Charlie and the 2 of them are looking to get married. She was going to visit her sister in the border town and then do some wedding shopping, rings, dresses and the like. I told her I would bring this to you."
The Ambassador sighed, "Very well, you may go. We will take this to the King for his signature at this afternoon's meeting. I am assuming the delay was from this and the weather?"
Hunter nodded, "If you had teleported back to get it yourself, there would have been no delay. Yes, the weather also was a factor."
The ambassador sighed, "I am far too busy to keep bouncing back and forth to pick up a document. That is what we have you, couriers, for. Very well, be gone."
Hunter rolled his eyes as he left the room.
Vexxor walked forward and read over the document. He was not looking at the document for the purpose of the agreement but for reading the hidden message. He smiled to himself, "Your Royal scribes do remarkable work. I will give you that."
The elven ambassador knew the wizard had his 'own power agenda' in things but had no idea where his allegiances lay. He looked it over, "I have seen better but they are far superior to your human scribes regardless."
He caught the errant brush marks and thought the fairly new Queen should look to replace this scribe if he was a master then standards had dropped, to let it go out with such obvious flaws.
Vexxor left the room and went to his quarters and secured them. He smiled as he activated the stone, "Lord Baramis, Arch-Mage Vexxor Crown. As if you did not know. Your mercenaries failed in intercepting this trade agreement. It will get signed as it did arrive. I did get the message from it though.
A new elf on this team named Eldar Silvertree, an impure Master Blade Singer, apparently helped them to get past your group without the loss of a single person. He is the son of the diplomat Heliar. This is ironic as the message in the document dealt with your asset in the Palace having gained some intelligence from Heliar through her wicked ways if you will.
She seduced him into her bed and learned he is quite certain the next big engagement is coming from the Drow. He wants to take a team into the Underdark in 6 months if not sooner. She is encouraging him to pursue this course and feeding his ego on the matter."
Lord Barramis hissed, "The anomaly has left the Academy. My agents warned me of him. He is proving to be an issue. Get some of your local thugs to get rid of him. This is the last I want to hear of this Eldar Silvertree. Your money will be in your account soon enough for your services. How goes your research?"
Vexxor knew Lord Barrimus feared his research, "Nearing completion. I am still several months out. The stage is set, the ingredients are gathered, and a puppet government here in the human lands loyal to me, and thus you by proxy, is in motion.
The ritual day will come soon enough with enough sacrifices to make my dreams a reality. No need to fret. My soul lock on you will carry forward when I succeed at this transformation. If it does not, then the contingency in place will see us both fall."
Vexxor chuckled as he deactivated the crystal. Lord Barrimus did not like being tricked by this human necromancer. It would have been something he would have preferred to be on the sending side instead of the receiving side. The Gease he had on Vexxor would wipe his mind if need be if he could get him to break it. Then his men could get the mage and put him into a status field if it came to that. Then bury him somewhere.
He let the mage think he had the upper hand for now. He was still quite useful. He took precautions as well, he just did not advertise them to the pathetic human. His 'elven asset' saw to that as he already had her under a gease to keep her in line. She altered it enough to keep Vexxor in the dark of what his compulsion would actually do to him.
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Charlemagne and Eldar decide to go ring shopping; wedding and cock. They found a nice little ring store that sold magical trinkets including an interesting line of magical wedding bands. The bands were made by a local Half-Elf enchanter.
They were designed with an enchantment that when spoken by the wearer or if the ring was removed it would make a beautiful ring seem mundane to hide its value. Charlemagne picked out a ring that was a half-inch thick made of platinum with an inset ring of pure sapphire running thru the middle. Magically sunken into the sapphire band were 14 very tiny matching diamonds.