The Founding of Rumble.

Chapter 6: Schooling the Magic School

The legend he referred to, she knew about because her parents had investigated why a newborn had been left in the divine forest, it didn't apply to her, she was a Dragon. The legend spoke of a High Dark Elf woman who would protect Leaf Tree from its enemies or at least that was the version the king wanted known, the real prophecy was vastly different and even that was a false prophecy, created to protect Dark Elves.

"You would rather be a Monster than a Dark Elf, do you even know how to use the gifts of your race?" He asked.

"My parents got me teachers, so I know exactly how to use my, 'gifts'." She replied, like dangling knowledge about her birth race would convince her to give up her freedom.

"There is more to know, your race has a rich history, culture." He added.

"Give it up, I will not be a tool for Leaf Tree like you use other members of my birth race." Jayda told him.

"We protect your kind!" He told her angrily.

"But it isn't free now is it," she taunted back as she finished with that shoe and walked over to him. "You treat Dark Elves like a second-class citizens, always separate, never getting a chance to see the world, always used."

"You know nothing!" He declared.

"I know... and I warn you now... tell the elven king... I know about the curse which will befall him and his line. I know why you isolate Dark Elves, keep them hidden, keep them controlled, for their own good, you say. Bull shit... it is so his line continues to exist because it was foretold, yes Dark elves will protect Leaf Tree, but they will also be behind its destruction!"

The servant noticing that the meeting was turning heated, came to take the shaken diplomat away. "No... that isn't what the prophecy says." He told her, he had a skill which allowed him to see when he was being lied to, Jayda was speaking the truth, that Dark Elves will be the end of Leaf Tree.

Jayda snorted and went back to Cobalt. "Go to the original text, stop just blindly believing the dogma you are trained to believe." She told him as she went back to work effectively dismissing him. "Also... warn the king, if he comes after me, I will become the curse to his line and I will destroy Leaf Tree as it is right now."

"May I ask one thing, keep your race's gifts a secret?" he asked.

Jayda gave him an unimpressed look, "I keep my secrets, I have many, know that if I tell someone... it is because I trust them." He nodded and left with the servant, he just had to trust that Jayda had good instincts as he really had no standing to make demands of her, it seemed she had absolutely no affection for Leaf Tree. He also knew there was no lie in Jayda's statement she would retaliate and retaliate in the extreme if they came after her, when he returned to Leaf Tree after the auction, he had to dissuade the king from provoking Jayda.

She went back to work on Cobalt's shoes and was down to the last one when Astra walked over, she had been mucking out the open shed the beasts slept in. "Um..."

"Was Cobalt translating for you?" Jayda asked, there were racial languages on top of the common tongue, languages that could only be spoken by members of that race. As such you had to be an Elf or a Barbarian to speak and understand their unique languages, Dark Elves however had their own language and could also speak the common Elven language. Tamed monsters however could understand all languages, so Astra could have easily just got Cobalt to translate. Wildlings were interesting as they could understand all languages but couldn't always speak to them.

"Yes... I didn't mean to..." Astra started to say.

"Don't worry about it, honestly, from what I have been told there are a lot of problems with Leaf Tree, it is not the paradise they portray. If they don't change, soon, the prophecy they are all clinging to, will be their downfall." Jayda told her.