An Elf's Secret Place

It was a life where she could walk freely through the forest without looking over her shoulder, and where her elven people lived in seclusion from the rest of the kingdoms. All that changed when they came: the soldiers; the barbarians; the humans. It didn’t matter what she called them, they sacked her village, and they were the reason she was alone —with no family to rely on, and no village elders to look up to.