A young girl, about 14 by the looks of her, was sitting in the middle of a rowan glade, a mandolin in her hands and a song on her lips. Her song was of a hero she thought was a myth.
Just as she started to strum the fifth chord, a note went sour.
"Darn it! Why won't this thing stay tuned?", she growled as she started to mess around with the tuning knobs. Her nimble fingers fiddled with them over and over, but the mandolin just wouldn't stay tuned.
That was when she realized that she was being watched. Many pairs of eyes glowed from the bushes, but they didn't seem dangerous. She tried to make herself as small as she could before she remembered something a spirit in her dreams had told her once: Music soothes the savage beast.
As she plucked out a scale to make sure the mandolin was tuned, a black blur shot out of the bushes toward her. She gasped as the small black kitten clawed its way up her light green tunic and buried itself in her crimson hair.
She decided the song she would play would help calm down the kitten, as well as whatever was in the bushes. She sang Somewhere Out There with a voice of an angel.
When the final notes died, she dared to look into the bushes. Every pair of eyes was half-lidded and a sigh escaped one of the creatures. The girl smiled, pleased the her plan worked. The kitten was purring and rubbing against her face.
She started to play again, but before she could sing one note, her mandolin went flat.
"Oh, blast it! Not again!", she moaned. She buried her face in her knees and wrapped her arms around them. The only flesh visible was her long pointed ears. The mandolin was carelessly put to the side.
A figure stepped out of the woods and kneeled in front of the girl. She raised her head and looked at the stranger with emerald green eyes full of unshed tears.
"Who...Who're you?", she asked the strange man.
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