Chapter 1
A cool, rough breeze started at Midnight as the Clozrans found them. Iris was staring at them, dumbfounded as if waiting for them to kill her. Aiden grabbed her wrist, a lot harder than he ought to and they both started running. Obviously, without question, the Clozrans followed them on their horses and their horses made rather unpleasant sounds.
Veela were blessed with running six times faster than any other species, and it was lucky for Aiden to be one of them. But Iris wasn't and he knew it.
As the Clozrans started ot catch up to them, Aiden, without giving a warning to Iris, picked her up and started to carry her. She almost let out a scream, but in less than five minutes, they had lost the Clozrans.
Aiden let her down and as Iris's elf ears heard a Clozran's horse's footsteps from less than two blocks, they both hid behind a pillar, waiting.
Aiden being a Veela came as a disadvantage too. A Veela's skin always glowed. All the time. So behind that pillar, if the Clozran came close, he could easily catch a glimpse of Aiden's very pale skin glowing.
Iris shivered at the thought of it. And even more when a very cold breeze came by.
Veela were blessed with a lot of things (sometimes those things turned out to be curses) from changing their genes to deciding what body temperature they wanted, to doing magic very easily which was very difficult to do for other species like elves.
Whereas elves were blessed with extremely sharp eyes and could hear anything from within a kilometer.
The Clozran's horse came close. Closer.
Closer...
Closer...
Closer...
That was when Aiden extended a hand and white waves cane from his hand and the Clozran and his horse fell unconscious on the ground.
"Let's go, I know a place where we can stay for the night," he told her, taking her wrist again, not knowing his strength.
"Stop doing that!" hissed Iris, snatching her wrist from him. He began to apologize but Iris told him that she heard the Clozrans coming closer so Aiden took her wrist again and led her to...
A pub.
"I thought you didn't drink alcohol?" Iris asked him.
"I don't. But it's a safe place," he answered, leading her inside the noisy pub.
"I don't like it here,"
"I know that,"
"How?"
"The obvious look on your face makes it extremely clear,"
They headed to a small empty table at the end of the pub.
The people in the pub glared in a surprised way at Aiden who wished deeply that they wouldn't tell him that they recognized him.
"Let's get out of here," she told him half an hour later, as she bit into a slice of bread.
"I don't think so," Aiden replied. "They won't go away so easily,"
"Why?"
"You and I saw what they did last month," he told her and Iris had a flashback of last month when they had met.
Iris didn't know what was happening. One moment, she was in her bedroom, chewing gum, and the next moment she was in this strange world, and she had weird ears, and her short brunette hair was long and red.
She didn't get it.
Everyone was so strange. But she figured everything out in a while.
Just like a fairytale. But in reality.
She wondered if she was dreaming. She pinched herself. No, no this was real.
She started to cry.
She was in a strange little market, with a bunch of weird people. Some were only three feet tall or so. Some were only a foot tall. Some had long ears like her.
Dwarves.
Leprechauns.
Elves.
Wow, she thought, dwarves and leprechauns and elves. I'm going crazy. Bizarro.
She extended her hand to put it in her jeans pocket. No.
No jeans.
Instead, she was wearing some sort of a white dress.
For some reason, she didn't freak out. She kind of liked it. Suddenly, out of nowhere appeared a huge convertible bag appeared in her hand. Which she opened and when she inserted her hand inside it, it seemed to stretch on and on and on. She didn't seem to reach the end until she felt something that she pulled out.
It was a coin. More than one and she kept taking them out and they didn't finish. They were probably their currency.
Even if she tried.
She headed to buy something. That was when a scream came by, "THERE SHE IS!" and the next moment she was being chased by elves on horses.
