Mayor of Elf Town 5 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

And show me Lilah certainly did. By the time I got back from making myself look and smell a little more respectable, things were well and truly underway in Varglade. Although I had been unaware of it, it appeared that as soon as Firnous, Zuthry, and myself had been spotted emerging from the edge of the Torrwood by the guardsmen on the walls, Lilah had been alerted.

From that moment onward, the final preparations for the departure of the Varglade army had gone into overdrive. These were preparations that the Matriarchs, and many of my other close elvish friends, had been quietly ticking away and working on just before we had left on our mission to destroy the infernal caravan—before we had even gone on our reconnaissance mission.

“You guys have been busy,” I said.

I stood on top of the northern ramparts of the barrier hedge with Ava, Cotu, and Penelo.

“That we have,” Penelo, the sun elf, said to me. “That we have.” She shot me a look out of the corner of one amber-colored eye and snorted softly. “You didn’t think we’d just be moping around here and waiting for you to come back, did you?”

I shrugged. “I did kind of toy with the idea that some of you would have been taking turns keeping a misty-eyed vigil. You know the kind of thing; coming up here, lighting a candle, staring out longingly into the gathering evening.”

Cotu burst out laughing and thumped the edge of the parapet in front of her.

“Your human humor tickles me sometimes, Jake,” she said. “Is that really how humans act?”

I chuckled. “I don’t think so. It happens in our more dramatic stories quite a bit, though. More often than makes sense if you ask me.”

The four of us returned our attention to what was going on outside the barrier hedge, in the sweep of flat ground that lay between the hedge and the long slope that led up to the eaves of the Torrwood on the lip of the dell.

Out there, on the grass, in lines and squares of rippling silver armor and spear points that reflected the light of the fitful sun like the mirror-bright scales of a giant fish, the army of Varglade assembled.

Parts of it anyway. Our whole force couldn’t all be assembled in one area of the township, neither inside nor outside the walls. Not anymore. There were too many individuals now.

As had been discussed by the Varglade Council, the township was being all but emptied. A skeleton guard detail made up of most of the older elves, or those nature elves who had been there before I had arrived and had more of an attachment to the place than any of the others, would remain to look after things. Everyone else, however, every other elf—whether they be nature, dark, sea, sun, moon, storm, blood, wild, or celestial—would be moving out.

“It’s quite a sight, isn’t it?” Lilah said, striding along the wall toward where we stood looking out.

“I was just thinking about that exact thing,” I said.

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