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Rothlen grinned. His leader hardly noticed his skin color. Great! He walked silently to her quarters as he was commanded to do. Walking the rows of soldiers he smiled happily at the other elves who appeared to be quite jealous. As he neared the door he took a deep breath and walked into the room. It was wide, rather than long and had war maps hanging from the wall along with many other papers that Rothlen believed to be of utmost importance. "Sire. You summoned me." The drow said in a deep voice. It was then when he noticed something. How young his leader was. She was still a teenager. A little shaken he tried to cool himself, and luckily nothing escaped.

"No, I don't usually venture this far out. Only on special occasions. I-I know you must be surprised at my presence, since I didn't make it known, but I did not want to disturb you. I don't talk much to the other elves, but I wanted to come out here and find out who you are. We are going to heading out on a journey together." Elalieh said hesitantly. "I'm sorry if I scared you, unlike the rumors, I really don't like the silence. I beg your forgiveness for my disturbance, and I thank you for your compliments. I will be on my way soon enough, but I really came here to ask some questions pertaining to our journey. Meeting times, packing requirements, and so on."

"I will take you up on your offer to stay, but I will camp up in the tree." Elalieh said. "I feel I can concentrate better when I am above ground. Why? I have no idea, one of the Great Universe's mysteries I guess. Do you mind?" she said as she picked up an arrow. "These are finely crafted, but if you go southeast a few hours from here you will find a cluster of strong oaks to carve some of your arrows from. They do not splinter as easily, and make clean shots because of their thickness. Oak is not as agile as yew, but I find it useful when I need to bring down a beast with thick hide." Elalieh told Mil'andrin as she got comfortable in the tree again and started humming a song she sings to relax as she stared at the clouds.

"I'd be surprised if you were familiar with this song, for my mother sang it to me when I was younger. That is, before she died, but I will not talk about such melancholy events. It does not have a particular name, all I know is that it is soothing. I only know the melody for the lyrics have escaped my memory many years ago. Time does such things to one's mind." Elalieh said. "If it is distracting you from your work? If so I will stop." she said nervously, sitting up from her relaxed position in the tree. "I do not wish to offend you by keeping you from your hobbies, if at any time I tend to interrupt your activities let me know. For when that happens I will immediately halt my actions."

Rothlen walked toward her desk, following his ruler's order. "The plans have been going quite fine. I am finished actually. And I do know what I am doing, I have heard your minimum, and I accept it. No more than 10. But, I believe that there shouldn't be very many there." But as soon as the young man finished answering Zayana's question she had left her throne. Moving her way silently down in front of Rothlen, she bowed. "What! This is unneeded Your Highness!" She looked up and asked to hear is plans. "There is no need to ask if I will be so kind. Anything you order me to do I will do. Be it suicide or criminal, you are my master. But I do believe some of the men in the army defy your leadership. I have heard many rumors about you as I have told you before. But, anyway! To the battle plan." Rothlen walked up to a map on her desk. Standing across from her he began. "The light elf kingdom is going to be an easy kill. I believe we should start by pillaging small villages to take prisoners, and to steal items from the houses. After maybe one or two villages attacked the army will head toward the larger cities. One by one trying to over run them." Rothlen pointed to a large city on the map. "It may take a day or two to over run just one city but imagine what would've been gained. After taking over at least one city, the army will return back here to get some well earned rest and food. After that we make a full scale attack onto the capitol.

"We will attack from behind," Rothlen said now using a map of the capitol. "First the parts of the city, the part in back that only poor people live in will be attacked first. I will go into the city and aware the guards that their is going to be an attack from the front. This will be able to be done because of my skin, remember. That will leave the lower class open for attack. We will actually let the lower class live so their shrieks won't cause attention. Only if the scream will they be shot. We will have to climb over the wall which will freak them out but too bad. We will mainly storm the castle. Once inside, one forth will guard the entrance secretly so they will die quickly. There is a back door here," Rothlen pointed to a spot in the very back part of the castle which lay in the middle of the city. "Another forth will guard the main entrance. Then the rest will follow me to attack in the throne room on the top floor. Once their, nothing can be planned." Rothlen took a deep breath. He may have said it a little fast but not so fast it wasn't understandable. Just enough to make him lose his breath. "What is you opinion of the attack?"

"It is unfortunate that you were not sung to when you were a child. I find singing lovely songs helps me most when I am scared, nervous, or I want to relax. And I will think on those words. Maybe I will learn to do what makes me feel comfortable and not worry so much about my impression on others. I will teach you songs on the journey, no? Great songs of hunting, love, and adventure that will surely bring up our spirits when we are down. For now, I must get back to my home. Supper-time is fast approaching and I have yet to catch myself a meal. Good day, Mil'andrin. It was a pleasure conversing with you." and with that Elalieh jumped out of the tree and fled into the dense woods to hunt for her dinner.

Elalieh sat at home later that night eating a salad. "Hmph no good animals out tonight. They must sense the foreboding aura that's surrounding our villages and invading our thoughts." she said as she crunched on a carrot. Once she finished her meal she walked to her window and stood staring out at the stars. "This journey is a quicker path to d3ath, but I cannot ignore it. This time was bound to come sooner than later, just like mother predicted." she said as she let her gaze wander towards a picture of her mother and herself. "I wish you were here to give me words of encouragement, but I know that this is the way it has to be. I will do my best to keep my brethren safe, please watch over my companions and me on our journey. Good night, mother." Elalieh finished with a farewell to her mother, almost as if she were there. She walked to her bedroom and finished packing for the trip. After she was done she collapsed on her bed and tried to sleep, but was overwhelmed with doubts and thoughts about tomorrow, about her journey, about the future of her people.

While Zayana was waiting for Rothlen to answer she noticed something creeping in the shadows. She was about to grab her scimitars when Nazriel appeared and she couldn't help but chuckle. Nazriel always seemed to approach someone like this although it wasn't the smartest thing to do since the dark elves trusted no one and would attack her if she didn't present herself when they noticed her. She strode over to the throne and gave a swift bow before returning to her usual spot next to Zayana, where a second but less elaborate throne stood. She glanced over at her and then smiled before returning her attention to Rothlen, becoming quite irritated that he was taking his sweet time to reply. She knew not to show her anger though for that was what he wanted to see, she knew he was meaning to do this for the pleasure of seeing his leader flustered and on the verge of anger. She calmed down and composed herself, not letting Rothlen get what he wanted to see.