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Published: 2011-05-08 17:07:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 12347; Favourites: 70; Downloads: 433
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The defeated, wounded and tired soldiers of the disbanded Hebonnor army spreaded in the mountains and Valleys of their kingdom:
The king captured, the battle lost, without a coersitive figure, quickly the surviving nobles turned to their lands, to take the chance for their own personal agendas, trying to take the feoff of their death, wounded, captured or imprisioned comrades, or to ensure it doesn't happen the same with them...
meanwhile, the clan and tribal warriors from the villages quickly spread as well, afraid of the uncertain future...
in one of these groups, riding to the souther mountains, a servant with the royal livery, ride a horse with two drows in the back.
"You should liberate us. You lost the war" said the smaller dark elf woman, tied in the back of the horse.
"You know I can't. I need you two."
"but why? leave us go! That drow spy you look after is surely dead! Go back to your home, and pray that Negeé make us spare the lives of the defeated and their families!" said proudly the drow... rather strange situatuon, as she was the oned tied and prisioner from the Hebonnor for several weeks.
They where dragged, along with other prisioners, with all the Hebonnor army, and they befriended, more or less, with that Royal Translator Mountain elf, who told them her problems and how she was looking for somebody...
But once the battle of Cilfach ended with a mountain elf defeat, the Royal Translator, tired and wounded after fighting in the battle, escaping with luck in the last moments, returned to the soon to be pillaged royal camp of the King of the Hill, and taking a horse from a dead noble, some pants, provisions, she picked the two drows.
They still didn't know about the destiny of the battle and the Hebonnor defeat, so they didn't resisted being tied and loaded to the horse...
But later, when it was clear the drow where the victorios, they didn't stopped to either amenace, ask or beg to be free by the Mountain elf in her retreat back to her village.
"if the acolytes catch you with us prisioner, withoud doubt they will kill you in a gruesome maner."
"Please! We have family in Negeémiliel and want to see them again!"
"I could allways ask for a favour for you in the future drow invasion so you family is spared."
"Release us! Or you village will disapear to the last sheep and stone!!"
But nothing change the idea of Neroe... she needed these drows, for when she return to Negeémiliel, so as guides or hostages, anything, they help her to find her friend Maylara Maltree...
I HATE drawing horses. and I fail doing it
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Strong woman Neroe ^-^
Face of small drow is very good and very realistic. She looks like my classmate in junior school.
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Thanks...
stupid animals, they are allways so dificult to make them right! XO!!
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Hmmm - being a loud-mouth and a prisoner is not a good combo... I love the cute, sly smie on her, too. X3
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Oh, an horrible and unlucky mix, one could say! X3
How is going this semester for you now? :3?
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A LITTLE better, but I still obsess over getting the highest grade I can, so instead of stressing over six classes, I'm stressing over three. That might sounds easier, but instead of being at a "5" for each of my six classes, I'm at a "10" for each of my three classes XD So the madness on my part remains the same. XP
How about you? How much longer do you have in prison? ; D
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Month and half, I suppose, but too bad I need to do other things aside from University
Oh! I sended you a note, in case you are interested in something :3
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Augh! >__>;; You have me beat, then. I have a little longer to go XP Congrats on that, though! 8D
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Your horses is awesome. I haven't draw animals since....Umm...6th grade..
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one should allways force oneself to practice everything, as well animals XD
Despise I hate drawing them! 
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don't worry, you draw horses much better than I!
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thanks XD
"in the country of the blind, the one-eyed is king"
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Haha love how the elf in the background with the arrows stuck in the shield. XD Indeed as Larqven said, hopefully when Neroe returns home she will see May's parents and be told of May's being okay, and then it's only a matter of what becomes of these two Drows... maybe Thaergrud will be able to turn them to happy peaceful Drows with cookies and cakes or other baked goods, well, the not so docile one who is crazy. I'm sure the docile one will be turned easily.
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just so long as there is not alot of sugar in the baked goods, everyone knows that sugar makes drow hyperactive and drow turn crazy when they are hyperactive.
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yay for Maylara's mom cookies
XD
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I can't understand Neroe's plan. Does she want to keep the two drows tied up? It would not be good to their health. I'd say, it's rather cruel treatment of the prisoners. And what else she expects from them? Would she untie them - they will escape, very likely killing somebody. They are not peaceful peasants, they are Acolytes!
If the drows had the same training as Quilintha had, they should know the terrain and can find their way by constellations on the sky. It is exactly that territory for which they were prepared. Of course, there are many dangers for the drows in the mountains. You mentioned that it's the Spring time, so the melting snow causes avalanches, flooding, mudslides. And there are many elf warriors from the defeated army who hate drows and ride here and there...
But even more strange Neroe's idea is to take them with her to Negeémiliel. She supposes that they will help her there? They will either kill her (for keeping them tied up for so long) or take her as prisoner. The bigger one can remember that Neroe saved her life, but the smaller one has no warm feelings to Neroe.
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She needed to tie them for transport, as she knew in the moment the drows knew about the Negeémi victory will try to break free
(they haven't been tied allways since they captured, and in their time in the court of the king wwhere rather free).
However, I don't think Neroe really have a plan there, but a general idea: she isn't thinking in risks, but in her lost friend
So she isn't making any sense
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... and so, instead of two friends Neroe may get two enemies. Not very good.
Now I wonder - will she come to her village before the news from Maylara, or after them?
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Not very good... but maybe she can fix that later
:3
She come home before or after the news of May?¿
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How long has Maylara been captured and tied....maybe a year?
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Let me calculate....
She was captured by the goblins, and prisioner of them maybe a week max.
Then, bought by Roothar, maybe 3 weeks until she was sold in the drow Outpost.
Two weeks more, before arriving to Negeémiliel.
Then, she was enslaved for 3 months, until she escaped.
Two weeks more, marching to find Roothar, and one more, back to Negeémiliel.
She finded Neroe, but then she was captured again by Lo'Kee acolytes, and for three weeks, she was in her dungeon.
Then, Maylara began her training for about two months, to become an agent for Dahl'Arak... and then, for maybe 3 weeks or a month, she have been a member of the cult of the Flower...
So, in total: abit more than 8 months
Meanwhile, Cilfach battle passed about the 6 month or so of May and Neroe unfortunate "adventure"
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.....For the love of the almighty lord give her a break! D'8
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Okey :3
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She is home now!
So Neroe get a break... only May need one now
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The Thirty-Six Strategies - a chinese classic text, in the same vein as Sun Tze's famous book on war, tell in its last chapiter...
If all else fails, retreat (走為上／走为上, Zǒu wéi shàng)
If it becomes obvious that your current course of action will lead to defeat, then retreat and regroup. When your side is losing, there are only three choices remaining: surrender, compromise, or escape. Surrender is complete defeat, compromise is half defeat, but escape is not defeat. As long as you are not defeated, you still have a chance.
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oh, I remember that book, I studied a bit of it for my classes of History of War in the XX century, in the ideologies of how to make war :3...
To bad, most of the commanders of the Hebonnor army surrendered or where killed, and others are eager to compromise, being few the ones who want to escape to keep fighting
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It's a great read, well the french edition I had rented one day x3
Sounds like a nasty war...
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Eh, the horse doesn't look bad. But I do understand the frustration...
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Damn horses! They are so difficult to draw, but so necesary when you do anything that isn't settled in an industrial era XP
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Horses are a bit odd to be sure. I've always found their big bodies on their skinny legs to be very odd to look at--much less to draw! Well, keep at it! The horse in the background looks odd, neck looks a bit short, and legs look odd. Neroe's horse looks ok.
Neroe's folks are going to have some drow captives over for awhile? I wonder what her dad will say about that!?! XD
Anyway, it looks like the two drow captured by the spies survived their interrogation and were kept around rather than being sold into slavery. It is a dangerous game Neroe is attempting for everyone--that the two drow will be safe in the village, that they won't try to kill anyone in an escape attempt, that using them as hostages won't backfire. Still, this could work! May has already sent word to her home village that she's alive. These two drow could be returned to the gate with a message to May in care of Captain Lo'Kee?
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I think I will play a little with MS Paint and edit the background horse... I think his head is to short, as well his neck
But yeah, Neroe play with fire in her desesperation
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I also like the horses... but I hate to draw them! XD
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