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Maybe you could take pictures and host them on google photos or something?

Can’t believe that NO one has taken me up on this so far!

I will make an entry on this post this weekend, for sure. At work, so don't have time to type one out just yet!

Is this over? Id love to enter!

I love this idea and so wish I had time to participate. I have ideas but am in the midst of vet school midterms until next week. But, I've been eagerly waiting to see what other people come up with!

Part 1

There once was a little girl who’s father loved her very much. Her name was Bina and, he was always bringing her gifts, but he was also always leaving. Which is why I suppose he brought her gifts so much, because he felt horrible about always leaving. But he was a horse merchant in the kingdom and known not only for the fine horses he had but also for his honesty about the horses. Something truly remarkable in a horse trader, which is why he had earned the name horse merchant.

Anyway in a time when girls were supposed to wear pretty dresses, embroider handkerchiefs, and practice dance. He knew his daughter didn’t really love those things much. So her lessons were on how to run a business. Being able to tell what quality a horse was, and all sorts of useful things concerning horses. She loved it almost as much as she loved him. Now there were one set of lessons only three people knew about and those were the fighting lessons the father insisted his daughter learn. She liked them but wasn’t quite sure why they were so important. When she asked all her father said was “your mother wanted you to learn” since her mother had died when she was very little, she was happy to learn it to feel colder to the mother she never knew.

So she grew from a little girl to a young woman, who was very pretty. She was often told she was the image of her mother, which always made her happy. Her hair was a shiny mahogany brown, her eyes were a emerald green, her form was willowy, but not to be mistaken as thin or reedy. All together her imag was that of a proper young woman who wanted nothing more than to find a suitable husband and get married. But her looks were deceiving, while she liked men her father had drilled into her most men were not to be trusted. That they would only see her welth and not actually see who she was. About the time she turned 12 he had found an elf that was willing to be her body guard. He chose an elf becaus, they were good fighters, honest, but mostly they has no interest in humans as anything but friends or employers. So his daughter was completely safe with an elf as a body guard.

Not the elf was a bit taller than his charge, his hair was black with silver tips, he had a sharp jaw, silver eyes, his skin was neither pale nor tan but just in
the middle, and of course pointy ears. His face was that of a 20yr old but really he was much older. Typical elf, now elves have no interest in humans, but humans were known for falling all over themselves to flirt with elves. So this elf told his little mistress to call him Wind. Not his real name, but it was better than elf. Anyway they went everywhere together. Anywhere you can think of they went for 8yrs he was her consistent companion and really only friend (unless you count her horses).

When she was 20 her father had gone over the mountains to sell a king horses and while he was there he sent word to his estate that he wished his daughter to join him. His letter stated he wished her to come quickly. So her and Wind saddled their fastest horses. Bina had a talk creamy dun mare named Kalla, and Wind had a gorgeous dark seal brown gelding named Vash. They started their journey across the mountains immediately. At first it was completely ordinary nothing special happened. Just riding by day and staying at inns during the night. Really for Bina it was like a vacation. At least it was until they came to the mountain crossing. They started the day early to get across it in one day so they wouldn’t have to spend the night on the mountain range. When they reached the top Wind had them stop. There was a road running along the top of the mountains in both directions, along with the road heading straight that they were talking. He pointed to the right that is where the road was. “That goes to the Drawf lands. Most of your jewelry came from there” He said softly. He nodded to the left “that one leads into my homeland.” He murmured.

Part 3

The elf woman looked at her, and slowly spoke. “I cannot heal him, my power does not lend itself to such things.” The look on her face went from stern to solemn, with a touch of amusement. “But you could heal him.”

Bina did not hear nor comprehend the last bit the elf had told her. Tears flowed down Bina’s face as she gasped out “what good is magic if it cannot save people?” Wind’s skin was turning pale, and his breath was coming out in raged, wet, gasping, wheezes.

The woman spoke again. “I cannot. But you can child. But if you don’t heal him quickly he will be gone forever.” Her voice took on a ring of power. “Look inside yourself and find your strength, wish it too him along with what your desire is.”

Bina had finally heard the elf woman’s words of hope. The last bit was cryptic, but that was the best she was going to get. She searched herself for the strength the woman said she had and wished with all her might for her friend to heal. Quite suddenly she felt as if a string of her strength was leaving her body. Wind’s breathing became easier, blood quit flowing between her fingers. Finally when she thought she’d die from lack of strength the ribbon between them snapped.

She jerked and looked around, she felt as if she’d been in a dream. But nothing had changed, Vash and Kalla were grazing. Wind was still laying in her arms it seemed as if he was dead for he wasn’t breathing. She looked up at the elf lady and her guards. “Is he dead?” She whispered.

“No” the elf woman said “you healed him, his body is simply reordering itself before he awakens.” The woman looked at her very intensely. “Interesting... I will tell you a open secret that I believe you will find useful one day. Sometimes an elf may fall in love with a human, it happens but rarely. Their children if they have any will bare all the looks of a human but be far more beautiful, but they will always have the elvin magic.” Then her horse turned back the way they’d come her gards following behind her.

Bina barely remembered to yell “thank you!” At their rapidly disappearing hooves.

Seconds later Wind woke “why am I still alive?” He said with surprise as he felt his stomach.

“Those are your first words after almost dying on me?” She hissed with shock.

“I knew I was a dead man, but I’m obviously fine.” His schok was very apparent in his voice.

So she told him of the elf lady and the secret she had been told as well. As she spoke his eyes got wider and wider, and the color drained from his face. “You met... Is.. Ivy” He said suddenly changing the name. “She is the most powerful elf in over a thousand years, and she wasn’t born to a noble family.” Then his face got even paler, which Bina hadn’t thought possible. “Rumor has it she had a younger sister who fell in love with a human, but was killed by Ivy’s enemys almost two decades ago... I think I’m going to be sick!”

“I thought you said elves don’t get sick?” Bina said with a start. Deciding to focus on that rather than the possibly life changing fact he’d just told her.

“We can get sick when the person we’ve been protecting for the last 8 years turns into the niece of the most powerful elf in the world! And her own magic is nothing to sneeze at, since she was able to heal a fatal wound on her first try without any training!” He said with his voice a good octave or two higher than normal.

“Oh” she said in a small voice as she realized she was half elf. There was no way for her to deny it. Humans as a rule did not have magic.

“Calm down” Wind said “It’s not like you’re now the queen of the elves.” He said trying for humor.

Her face held a look of absolute terror. “I could become the queen of the elves?”

He quickly tried to fix his mess “no only if you marry the crown prince. He’s married though so you don’t have to worry about that.”

She sighed. Then she turned and looked at him. “Are you ready to ride? Because I have a lot of questions for my father.”

Wind laughed “I believe Lady Bina that is a great understatement.” He stood grabbing Vash’s reins. “I’m fine to ride. Lets go.”

Bina sprang to her feet threw Kalla’s reins over the mare’s neck flung herself into the saddle and started cantering down the road with Wind racing after her. She knew she finally would get answers out of her father. Just as she knew her life would never be the same again.

I've been swamped with work, but I might be able to knock something out this weekend.

I will send both of you 200k tonight after auction.