Silver Oath
And then Kaelen saw her.
Amid the wreckage of a toppled cart, half-hidden by broken wood and spilled grain, a young woman lay struggling to rise. An arrow jutted from her side, the shaft snapped in half. Her hair shimmered silver in the firelight, cascading around a face too sharp, too perfect to belong to any villager. Her ears, Kaelen realized with a jolt, were pointed.
An elf.
Her violet eyes locked on his. And though he had never seen her before, something deep in his chest tightened, as though he had always known her.