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had just entered the room and made his way through the crowd

to come before the judge. The whispers grew louder.

- Shi-Mae, heir to the Duchy of Rio-proclaimed, but not

was necessary. All had recognized her as the young beautiful bride

the accused.

- Do you have something to say, Shi-Mae? Asked the judge.

- I note it know this very well-elf began

Shi-Mae.

The room was completely silent, hanging on his words.

But if expected-Mae Shi continued the speech of the witch, talking

in favor of Ankris, were surprised.

- I know him-Mae-Shi continued, because it was my fiance and we would

married. Our relationship lasted ten years.

- What? Snapped the Duke River, helplessly, barely made

two-year-Mae Shi had spoken for the first time of their courtship

with Ankris.

Mae Shi deliberately ignored his father's outburst and continued:

- However, in all this time he never told me about his

transformations. I hid that turned into a wolf murderer the

full moon. And I discovered by chance for only three

weeks.

Mae Shi recounted his visit to the cabin Ankris and everything that happened

later. The audience listened, awestruck, as the girl

recounted how her fiancé, whom he loved more than anything in the world,

had become a beast in his eyes and tried to kill her

and devour. He described in detail the horrible persecution through

forest, during which Shi-Mae had fought to exhaustion,

trying to stop the formidable creature that tried to kill her. "Oh,

Shi-Mae "Ankris murmured to herself, crying silently,

first sensing how terrible that night had been to

her. "Sorry, sorry, so sorry ..."

- But I would not kill him, did not want, because Ankris was my

promised ... She whispered. Finally turned it into stone and managed to stop it

until sunrise. Then I despetrifiqué and ... She took a breath, I went to

Golden Wood School to introduce me to the Fire Test.

There were murmurs and exclamations of admiration. Everyone had heard

speak Fire Test, but only mages who had

exceeded understood all the implications of the words of

Shi-Mae, and paled. Face the Fire Test without

rested the previous day, having exhausted almost all magic energy,

was practically a suicide.

Many looked to Ankris almost hatred, but he barely noticed.

Only had eyes for Shi-Mae, who stood like a hero to a

audience gazed admiringly.

- Now I see everything differently, she continued. If I do not

had been an apprentice of witchcraft, if it had been any other

elf Ankris have killed me that night. You may count on that

concoction that renders it harmless, but, of course, when I saw it was a

bloodthirsty beast. The next day he said he had been an oversight,

that at the last moment he realized that he no longer had

She took a breath and continued: If you really want to control the beast, ever

would have made that kind of slip. We can help, says the witch. But

Do you really want to be helped?

- You know I do, Shi-Mae! Ankris cried.

She turned to him and stared coldly.

- So you have told me. If you can not trust me, how

expect me to trust you? You're a monster, a beast killer. Not

're one of us.

The judge leaned Mae Shi.

- Are you aware of what you say? I remember you're talking

elf to marry you thought.

- No. It is the elf who thought married. The Ankris I

there is known. It was all a lie, an illusion. That night I saw her

true face, a face that has since pursued me all

nights in my worst nightmares. I dread to think what would happen

if another girl fell into the same trap as me. It may seem nice and

good person at first, but ... What would happen if I were to have ...

carelessness full moon night?

- Where are you driving at, girl? Growled the sorcerer.

- I say that you can not control the beast, 'said Shi-Mae,

challenging, looking around. You have to destroy it. And, if for that

we kill the elf ... so be it.

Ankris gasped, startled. Everyone started talking at once, but

suddenly a cry echoed about the room.

- Dirty manipulative bitch! Eilai shrieked, her eyes full of

tears, trying to pounce on Shi-Mae, while her husband

barely retained. How dare you talk about my son!

When the judge was able to return to calm things down, asked

Shi-Mae:

- Do you have anything to add?

- Yes, 'she said, looking into her eyes Ankris. This creature is a

monster that should never have been born. And so must die.

Ankris felt her without air and dropped to the bench,

not wanting to believe what I just heard. The room revolutionized

again. They all spoke at once, and had to restrain Eilai three

to not throw on Shi-Mae.

- Leave me! Shrieked the Sentinel. Let go! I'm going to kill that

traitorous bitch! How could you sell my son that way, poor

female!

Finally, Eilai took dragged and removed it from the room. Ankris

suddenly realized that her mother knew exactly how he felt.

It had infuriated whether anyone else had asked her

death to the court. But Shi-Mae ...

He closed his eyes wearily. "Okay, kill me now," he thought. "Neither

even the person you think deserves more love live ".

He sat on the bench and buried his face in his hands. He felt the

look-Mae Shi triumphant about it. "So much hate me?" He thought. Opened

eyes and looked, and read the truth in his sapphire eyes.

Yes.

Just heard nothing of what happened in the moments following.

Other elves spoke, but he did not listen, and he was sure that the

rest of the room did not. The Mae Shi's words were

like a stone weighing on the minds of all. When finally the

jury made a decision to Ankris not surprised at all to hear

the judge announced:

- The An-Kris Robles, this court considers you guilty of

Lycanthropy and elves twelve murder. The sentence is death.

Ankris sighed. "Finally," he thought. He had finally done all,

rest and forget-Mae Shi forever. Even heard the cry of his

mother while the king's guards had dragged him to the

Death. He turned his head to look at Shi-Mae for the last time, and instead

triumphant expression I expected to find on his face, surprised at

his eyes a look of deep and desperate sadness.

The guards pushed him away, as the crowd

booing, and Ankris thought she had imagined.

No judgment executed immediately. He was thrown back to

dungeon, and left him there for a few hours until sunset.

At night, when the crescent moon shone high in the sky, the

guards went looking for Ankris.

- It's time, they said.

The young man rose and followed obediently. He was killed by

inside. The execution would not change things much. They dragged him to the

outskirts of the city. As it was late, they found no one by the

way. Ankris had heard that in human lands, the prisoners were

paraded in carts by the people for the mob, enraged, the

insulted and humiliated spitting and throwing things. The elves, in

however, were much more discreet. The execution is carried out of

night, in the woods, and nobody but the executioners and an official of the king

was allowed to attend.

However, when Ankris was thrown to the ground in a clearing

forest, he saw the officer anywhere. The guards who

guarding made no move to charge their bows or draw his sword.

- What does this mean? He murmured, stunned. What are you

waiting for?

- They're waiting for me, 'said a quiet voice from the darkness.

Ankris tried to locate the voice. For when his owner left

between the shadows and the moonlight lit up her face, the young man knew of

who it was, but even so, his presence there surprised him.

He was the Captain of the Guards of the southern border.

Ankris went to ask something, but no words. The Captain

smiled and moved away to talk to him away from the ears of the

guards.

- I plead for you, 'he said. Despite the hatred that you have my child,

I sincerely appreciate your parents and I trust the word of the witch. And

Moreover, I have had in my school and I know you're not a monster, son.

Ankris felt he had a lump in his throat.

- I did not get you lifted it, but commute. Not

are sentenced to death ... but stay forever banished from

our Kingdom. If you dare to come back, nothing can save you now.

Ankris was so relieved not otherwise have been.

- You have until dawn to leave the Kingdom of the Elves

-Captain concluded. When the sun rises, you will officially be an outlaw,

and the king's soldiers have orders to shoot to kill.

Ankris reacted.

- What? Snapped. But if the nearest border is two weeks

of here!

The captain shrugged.

- Nobody said it was easy, boy, but at least you have a

opportunity. The soldiers begin to chase you until dawn. That

means you have a night of advantage. And knowing your

Sentinel abilities, I doubt you are able to get you. But do not

trust.

The young man tried to assimilate all the information.

- Captain-said, looking earnestly, I can not leave.

Tomorrow is full moon. I can not allow ...

- It's all planned. Take-handed a vial of colored liquid

Ankris reddish knew well. Warlock is a gift. Looking for a good

place to hide during the full moon. At least for a time not

causarás damage.

- What will happen next? With this amount only I have for some

months.

- Take this too, handed him a scroll. Here is written the

sleep aid formula so you can prepare yourself. The witch says

you know all the plants described here.

Ankris unrolled the scroll and read elf eyes without

problems in the light of the moon.

- That's right, nodded, feeling a flame of hope

fed his heart.

- I forgot, 'said the captain. Your parents send

memories. Your father gave me this for you, gave an elongated,

carefully wrapped in cloth. She said she is a gift

family. But do not dawdle to open it now. Now you will look later.

- Thank you, Captain. I'll never forget.

The captain gave him a look of seriousness.

- It is a way to pay my debt murmured.

- Does your ... debt?

- The night the werewolves bitten your mother ... she and your

father had to face three of them completely alone, because

I would not listen ... If I had listened and had sent a

group with them to defend the ford, perhaps you would be now a boy

Normal.

Ankris immediately understood what she meant. His mother had

told the story, but had never seen him like that. Do not know what

say.

- However, I want you to know, the Captain concluded that although you

appreciation, never let a werewolf on the loose, even in lands

humans. I trust you. Promise me you will fight against the beast.

- I swear, my Captain, promised Ankris with all his soul.

Moments later, undertook the flight of the Kingdom of the Elves. As

faithful friends who had always been, the wolves of his pack as

accompanied, making the game less painful.

Ankris not paused all night. He ran and ran

to exhaustion, but even when the sun ran for

the forest, avoiding the haunts. He still wore advantage to

king's soldiers, but I knew that these would reach soon.

Especially because unconscious happen overnight.

As the full moon, Ankris found a good place to

hide a crack at the bottom of a cliff, and there took the sleeping pill

shortly before the transformation to take place. When she woke up

Next, in the same place, did not linger: there was still much

way to the border.

Despite their haste and their precautions, the soldiers reached,

and for several days Ankris desperately fled them, and some

times were about to bring him down with his arrows. At a time

determined almost caught him; several shots came to impact

his body, but fortunately not given in any vital. At that

occasion he escaped by wolves, who helped him during his flight,

distracting the soldiers, attacking from the woods and forcing

to fall behind in pursuit. In addition, a new flame burning in the

young elf's chest. Do not want to die, not anymore. Survive. And destroy

the beast. He must do so by their parents, by the Captain, by the sorcerer, because

they believed in him.

But above all, for himself. To show the world that Shi-Mae

was wrong and that he was no monster.

After several days of hiding advance through the forest,

runaways desperate to hold his breath, trembling, in some hole

while the soldiers searching the area looking for him, Ankris finally arrived,

almost creeping exhaustion, the Ring. And he felt free.

For though he was injured and that intricate circle wooded

still belonged to the Kingdom of the Elves, the young man