<a class="postlink" href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v225/keyootee/elfprincess.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/>Lila Deventry<br/>180 years old<br/>elven princess<br/><br/>The days before this news came to her, Lila had been having the oddest dreams. She had thought it was because she was a different princess than the others in her family, a secret that she had been hiding for years. She was really a tomboy, and very uncomfortable in her skin. She wore the finest of dresses, but yearned to wear slacks. Dresses were so uncomfortable and itchy! When she was young she had tried on her secret friend the page boy's outfit. She found it more comfortable then those frilly things that she was forced to wear. She had to make her father happy, he worked hard to make sure his daughters were the most refined and beautiful woman in the whole kingdom. It would hurt him to know that Lila had caught frogs from the pond when she was young, and that every night she carefully snuck off to a pauper's house for fencing lessons. She was always careful for nobody to see her, wearing a dark brown outfit and keeping to the shadowy alleys that nobody would see her. Her friends took her secret to heart, so her father never knew of her boyish ways. She always was changing her true nature around her family, and acted very prim and proper around them.  She made sure not to scratch her itches whenever they were in sight, nor to burp or do any other unladylike things.<br/>This man who came to her going off about the boy with the unicorn horn puzzled her, even though she kept her act up about being like the rest of her sisters, it was obvious she was not like a normal princess. So why did he come to her? Surely someone with more training would be able to deal with this better than her.<br/>Though she had been dreaming about unicorns, did they know about that? This boy that had been found was special, and it scared many people in her kingdom. But it didn't scare her, but maybe if she knew more about the legends it would touch her more. But she wasn't silly like most people. She knew that legends were legends, and this boy was a real person not a monster. They knew she was more logical than most people. She would keep herself calm when everyone else was taking out the fire and pitchforks.<br/>She glanced at the old man, noting the worry etched across his features. She followed him closely, her steps hurried for his benefit though she didn't see the reason for haste herself. She tilted her head whispering in case someone else was nearby.<br/>"Why have you chosen me to go after this? You know I am not like my sisters. Wouldn't they be better suited to check this out?"<br/>What did they expect she would do about this boy? She thought she would probably hide him from the people that wanted to hurt him. Out of her whole family, she could pull it off. She was the one they wouldn't miss, even though she was the youngest. You would think the youngest would be spoiled, but it was the oldest they favored. She was the one they were preening to make queen when she was old enough. Lila would never see queendom, unless her sisters died or she married royalty. Though really she didn't want it. She didn't think she was suited for the role of queen. Though even though she didn't know it, her father wanted that for her. But for now, that future was only hazy. There was this boy to deal with. She eagerly awaited the answer the scout would give her.