Blood and Rain
he whispered, his lip trembling beneath his silver mustache.
"I do," Maeve replied with a soft, solemn smile. She sat back against the stone wall, her gaze drifting across the courtyard as she began to speak, her tone carrying the rhythmic, comforting cadence of an old storyteller. "When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to sit me by the hearth and tell me tales of the old world, before the lineages fractured into petty houses. She told me about the Sire of the Dark Elves. She told me how the ancestors of what we now call the Forest Elven Elders began to grow proud, self-righteous, and cruel, sowing seeds of prejudice against anyone who didn't fit their narrow mold."
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