Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 283: Comforting Fae

Yunan slowly and gently applied the healing salve made by mixing the healing honey and the cleansing milk to the place where the faint pink traces were. "With this it would looks as good as new, so stop sulking and smile again, seeing you like this makes us all feel worried, after all, you are always full of laughter and energy, you might even get wrinkles early if you keep this look up, and then everyone will be sad to see your beautiful skin turn old and icky".

Comforting Fae was not an easy thing especially since she was the type to base her entire life on the state of her skin, even phantom scars that were already healing would sour her mood, what made her sulk this bad was being seen with such an ugly scar. Fae was sensitive, even if it was about the wrong things, but she was still a little girl at heart, she is playful, likes pranking, does not care much about others, she is strong and willful but unexpectedly fragile when it came her weak point.

"This skin, it's not mine" said Fae under her breath "my mom always said i was born ugly and misshapen, my father almost killed us both because he thought i was the offspring of another man from another race, my father never talks about it and everyone else in the village says my mom was just telling me things to make me behave. My mom always said that she went to the heart tree daily to pray to the heart, but the priesthood always threw her out of the heart tree and the temples dedicated to Yggdrasil, they said that i was an abomination, a dirty polluting existence to be kept away from the purest tree and from the purest temples".

Yunan listened well as he kept applying the salve methodically, he thought as well it was just a story to frighten the little girl into being a good elf, what was the best way to make a girl obey than to tell her that her beauty was not yers and if she did not behave it can be taken from her. Still Fae seemed to believe it, and that was more than enough for him to let her finish her story, it may be the first time she openly talked about this matter, and as he was trying to comfort her, he did not plan to let her feel mistaken for sharing with him.

"She said that for the first year of my life i was shunned by my kind, i have shown rare talent among the elves and acute magical sensitivity, but they all still refused to share the same space with me, if it was not for my parents, i would have been thrown to the monsters in the nearest nest. Mom said that one day when she was praying to Yggdrasil, she heard her plea and came floating down from the sky, she then touched my head and smiled saying that i had a big future waiting for me and my looks were not up to par with that future, a light shown and i become an ordinary looking baby girl, my old name was changed to Fae by Yggdrasil because she said that this new name fit me more than our ancestors"

"No one mentions my old name, but i know it, the fair race is magical and our names can never be changed, they are almost carved into our being, giving a member of the fair race andw name was in an insult to the fair gods, but since the one who changed my name was Yggdrasil, none dared disobey and call me by my name. This skin and this body are not mine, and one day i will give them back to Yggdrasil, when i am strong enough that this body is nothing but a hindrance i will return it to her, until then, it must stay in the best condition"

Yunan could tell Fae believed what she was saying, it was hard for Fae to speak the words out, and when she was done he could feel a bit of a shudder run through her body, so he answered "if you really are going to give it back, you shouldn't take so much care of it, this was something forced on you, so a scar here and there won't be the end of the world, it would be a little revenge that only you know about".

Yunan was done with applying the salce so he helped the girl dress up and then took her again in his embrace he jokingly said "shame such a beautiful body is not getting any good use, i would know a naughty thing or two to show our utmost appreciation for Yggdrasil", Fae giggled a bit but stayed silent, and so Yunan didn't say anything more until they heard Dustan stop snoring suddenly. Yunan and fayed stayed still and hid their presence as much as they could, Dustan was an alarm when he slept, he could identify any amount of danger and wake up ready for battle.

The others in the camp went on alert and before long one of Bai alarms was activated, and then more and more activated as well, facing the tent was Lucian who was still looking after the food, he winked at the two as if telling them to stay inside and keep hiding, not long after 4 individual appeared in Yunan's range, he did not know if they were enemies or but out of caution he started to syphon out their mana just in case, he discovered that all of them were preparing to cast magic and relayed the information through the communication rings, he did not dare make his syphon obvious and certainly did not dare to spy on their mana cores for too long.

One of the four took a step forward when he saw that Debauchery party did note take any action other than being on alert "we are peaceful, we only wanted to trade some news and information, we have just returned from a prolonged hunt and have no idea what the state of the world have been for the last decade, will you kindly share your intelligence and we will repay you" the man relaxed while talking and took two more steps forward with his hands spread out for all to see.