-Two Worlds: Litni Speed-

["Cilia" <cilia@xxxxx>]

-Two Worlds: Litni Speed-
Cilia

My name is Litni Speed. I am the daughter of Craton Speed and a member of
the Third House of Necris. My grandfather, who?s a wise healer and a member
of the court of King Vitor, raised me. I never knew my father; he was gone
by the time I was born.
My childhood was happy, spent running around the castle gardens in the City
of Elves.
Oh... did I forget to mention... I?m an elf? Well... now you know.
Anyway... when I was... eight seasons, I think it was, I met the people
most responsible for who I am today. They are my family really... Tark, my
friend, mentor, and... father of sorts. He?s a drow by the way, and it?s
because of him that I swear my allegiance to the Third House. Pissed some
people off to no ends when I did it, but hey I follow my heart.
Then of course there?s Willow Rosenberg... I can?t help but smile when I
think of her. She?s the one called the Red Mage, the one who taught me about
magic and life, for which I am extremely thankful. Seeing as how I was
raised by my grandfather and a Drow General, it?s thanks to her that I?m not
more boy than girl.
Last, but not least there was Xare... I never learned her full name and
only... I only met her once... she died in the war. I guess that was my
first experience with death, my first experience knowing that somebody I
knew... was not coming back.

I grew up with the impending attacks from the Darkness always looming
overhead. After the Battle of Necris a year passed, and another. Then
finally, in the third year after the Battle, people eventually stopped
worrying about the Darkness as much as they used too.
The Alliance was firmly established and strong. Willow led it with an iron
fist in a velvet glove and the lands were happy and prosperous.
I remember... when I was eleven seasons, I asked Tark to teach me how to
fight and how to be a warrior like him. To my utter amazement, he said yes.
We began the next day and I was sore for a week. He even gave me the crystal
blade my father had stored for me in the Great Armoury. I guess Tark, being
the dark ?ol drow at heart he is, suspected that peace would not last long
in the Land of Elves.

Then in the fourth year after the Battle of Necris, things really began to
happen. The royal wedding had caused such an uproar throughout the land. The
people were happy that the king had finally taken a wife but were unsure of
her heritage. But the beauty of the ceremony, and the pure love in the eyes
of the newly wed soon put an end to the arguments of the skeptics. This was
a marriage of love, and they trusted their king and of course the Red Mage
who supervised the ceremony and settled all arguments that arose against the
wedding.
Unfortunately... the festivities were soon quieted when Al?x Sun reported
skirmishes on the northern boarders. The Darkness was approaching, but it
went unnoticed by the common folk and many of the Royals ignored it. Then
one night not long afterward the first attacks I heard loud voices coming
from Willow?s study and when I peaked inside I saw many of the heroes of my
childhood gathered there, Al?x Sun, Joyce Summers, Stjar?a of Necris and
Cordelia Moondancer. It was obvious that they were debating what to do about
the stubbornness of the Royals to act. It didn?t end well. I hid when Al?x
Sun stormed out and I will never forget what happened next. Joyce the Avatar
followed him out, but when she saw me she stopped and smiled at me. "So you?
re Litni?" she asked with those white eyes and all I could do was nod my
head. "Guard Willow make sure she doesn?t forget," she then said and was
gone.

I feel like I should mention Willow more. She was always there when I was
growing up. She talked to me like a person, and gave me advice about boys.
She taught me to appreciate life. I know she watched me from her tower when
I trained with Tark. But... I can?t really say she was a mother to me
because she always had this... air of sadness when I was around, like she
was afraid to get too close. Or maybe she just saw in me what she had given
up.
One night, I think it was shortly after the wedding and the late night
meeting with Al?x, I found her alone in her tower lounging in her favorite
chair, just staring out the window as if beyond the stars. She told me
something that night that I will never forget.
"I was wrong."
Those three words were the only time she spoke to me about making her wife
return to the Earth Realm.
Everybody knew, of course, about General Summers? return to her Realm. It
had been the talk of the land. Many had taken it as a sign that the War was
indeed over and that the impending Darkness would not come back in their
lifetime. But Willow knew otherwise.

Speaking of heroes of my childhood, I have to tell you about the Heroes of
Necris. They were the ones who stood out above all others. When the children
used to play the Battle of Necris, I was always ?Ranger Knight Cordelia
Moondancer?. She was my favorite. I have to say that one day I would really
like to meet the legendary Ranger Knight who never stays long, and always
goes where she is most need.

It was eight years after the Battle of Necris when reports started coming in
about increased fighting and that great armies were massing in the Dark
Lands across the Great Wilderness. We also heard that Al?x Sun and his
companions were rallying an army in the Dark Lands, but nothing was
confirmed. That was when the first serious attacks began.
Tark sped up my training. I felt like I became a warrior almost overnight. I
was still too young to go to the front, of course, but had Tark trained me
well. I am now among the Royal House Guard.

I guess this all brings me to my current situation. I sit here looking over
the City of Necris and wonder... how this dark place could be the birthplace
of the Alliance. I?m here as personal guard to the Red Mage. Since she is a
part of the Royal Court, I had requested the honour of being in her personal
guard. She told me she is going to attempt to open a portal to her home
Realm. She says we need leaders, Generals that can lead us through these
dark times once again... and that there are not many left who fully remember
the horrors of Necris.
Save one... and that one, is General Elisabeth Anne Rosenberg-Summers, The
Hero of Necris.
I am Litni Speed of the Third House and this is the start of my journey.

The Beginning...

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