Book 5: Chapter 17
I previously thought I was absolutely safe with the Shadow Squad since they were masters of assassination and espionage. I thought that elves wouldn’t accept their own kind being sold off and that the enemies I was facing were few. But what Freya said gave me a big wake-up call, reminding me of how dangerous my current predicament was.
Fortunately, I had hidden my identity. Otherwise, I really would wind up dead here.
If people in a village were being trafficked then perhaps it was coincidental. However, when you combine all the strange things that could be explained together, it was evident that there was a problem with the village without a doubt.
The problem didn’t lie with just a person or two, but the entire village.
“My beloved! What are you saying?! How could the village do such a thing?! There is no way we elves could accept such a thing!! We would never betray our own no matter what you say and no matter what happens! That is our bottom line! It is impossible!”
Luna looked at us with an angry expression and her face was flush red due to her anger. We were both humans after all… Wait, no. It certainly was a little insulting for a mixed-blood and a human to be discussing an elven group trafficking their own kind.
I quickly calmed Luna by saying, “No, we’re just speculating. It’s just that too many of the things that have happened in this village don’t sit well with us. I, too, believe that elves wouldn’t do such a thing. I trust elves because I have never met a bad elf before.”
Luna looked at my gaze. She then turned her head away. A split second later she softly said, “This is my home after all. I grew up here, so I am not too willing to see the darkness of my home. The village is the same as before I left. I feel like my pure-self here. And with you here by my side, I cannot feel anymore blissful than I already am. This place makes me happy, so I do not want to know about the darkness here.”
“So what you’re saying is that you, too, have sensed something is different?”