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Like they could light this ancient place, this place belonging to a king, on fire and raze it to the ground in moments.
That is how I feel right now.
If something doesn’t happen soon, something interesting, something dangerous, I’m going to light this place on fire.
I look over at the other tables and try to find a conversation that looks interesting enough for me to eavesdrop.
And I see them then.
A gaggle of humans surrounded by several dark elves. The human girls are pretty enough, although they aren’t to my taste.
“Would you like another?” Another barmaid has come around. She is very different from the last one.
She is confident, assertive, and flirtatious. She is a skinny thing and her collarbones protrude in a way that is very unattractive.
She is also human. She leans forward suggestively and reveals some of the cleavage beneath her shirt.
I shake my head impatiently at her and turn away. I can almost see her pouting disappointedly, but she recovers soon enough and walks away.
There’ll be someone else tonight who will take her on. Who will give her what she wants.
Several of the human girls in the group with the dark elves have split off into couples.
I cannot help but feel annoyed, because the second that the barmaid spoke to me, something in the tavern changed.
The air is tense all around, and I can practically see sparks rippling through it.
I listen carefully, trying to catch up on what I missed out on.
And I hear one word that makes me turn back to the human-dark elf couples.
‘Rulers.’
The conversations in the tavern are the same as they always are when people speak about the Rulers.
More and more dark elves are falling for human women. And it is disturbing the status quo. It is making them uncomfortable.
The Rulers do not like change, and they do not like the shift in power as human women gain legitimacy in dark elf society.
There are rumors, things only spoken about in the darkness, about a great, long journey if things continue the way they have.
Maybe I should have said yes to another drink,I think to myself.
I find the whole premise of human women disrupting dark elf society to be ludicrous. I have slept with human women before. I have caused chaos with human women before. They’re fun, different, and sometimes quite delightful.
But they are just humans.
Powerless, weak, and usually very stupid – most dark elf men aren’t looking for intelligent conversation from a woman. All they want is a good, easy lay.
I do not see how the Rulers could be worried that the humans have any ability to overthrow the current order.
My eyes lock onto the human-dark elf couple closest to me. He is tall with dark gray skin and long dark hair. She is beautiful – short and well-rounded but lithe. Her bare arms and legs are muscular.
She laughs, placing her hand on his arm and caressing his skin. His eyes narrow, looking at her from head-to-toe with pure lust behind his gaze.
Something about that makes my skin crawl.
“...they’re nothing but toys for the dark elves. They’re pets.”
