Mayor of Elftown Omnibus by King Dante

Author:King, Dante
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I don’t know why I was so surprised that Rosa had a sister. Lots of people had sisters, so why should elves have been any different? Except Rosa had always, from the very first moment that she had stepped out of the throng of dark elves in that dungeon, struck me as being absolutely one of a kind. Yeah, she was absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. However, she had always seemed like a rare breed. Now, learning that there was a person out there who shared the same genetic material as her, felt kind of strange.

“Who is this?” Rosa’s sister asked me, looking at me with an unabashed gaze, even as Rosa stood from my lap and stepped out to meet her.

“This is Jake Walker,” Rosa said. “Jake Walker, this is my sister, Simone.”

“Uh, hi,” I said, with my usual suavity and eloquence.

Simone cocked her head to the side—in the exact same way that Rosa habitually did—and regarded me. I noticed then that her silver-purple hair was twined and rolled up into the side buns that had been made so famous by Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia, albeit messier.

“This Jake Walker does not look like an elf,” Simone said bluntly.

“Well spotted, sister,” Rosa said. “Still as astute and hawk-eyed as ever, even after… How long has it been?”

“A good little while,” Simone said with characteristic wild elf vagueness. “So, this non-elf, this Jake Walker, why does he look so perplexed?”

Rosa looked at me, at the same time as I managed to smooth away my bemused frown.

“I imagine it has something to do with your sudden and poorly timed entrance, Simone,” Rosa said.

Simone’s face split in a knowing little smirk, and her dark red eyes flicked away from my face to gaze at her sister.

“I will admit that I was somewhat taken aback, though not surprised as such, to see you twining yourself around this—what did you say he was?”

“Human,” Rosa said as I followed the conversation backward and forward like a spectator at a tennis match.

“Right, human,” Simone said, giving no hint as to whether she knew or cared what a human was. “Well, he’s a handsome one and no mistake, sister, so I can well understand you trying to constrict him in the manner of a sea serpent, but—”

“Hey, sorry to cut in at this juncture,” I said, finally managing to gain control of my tongue and teeth, “but I was taken aback because Rosa always made me think of a lone wolf. Seeing that she has a blood relation is kind of unexpected.”

“We’re wild elves,” Simone said, glancing at Rosa as if to ascertain whether I was being serious.

Rosa turned and patted me on the back. “All of us are lone wolves, Jake, even when we’re standing next to one another.”

“Fair enough,” I said. “Simone, was there any particular reason you were hanging around in a tree like an apple?”

“Jake Walker makes a good point, sister,” Rosa said, snapping her fingers like she was only just realizing how abrupt and weird this whole situation was.

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