Anyalee sat looking at the book of medical training and sighed.  It had been years since she had been through a portal.  She didn't like going there and remembering what she was missing.  She didn't like the politics there and refused to be a part of a community that was mostly hidden.  She had crossed the veil and created her own home.  The same home she was tucked inside now.  She looked outside and shuddered at the cold wind that was blowing around outside.  She watched the leaves blowing around her yard and reminisced about what she had accomplished since coming to the mortal realm.<br/><br/>Anya often saw patients who were too scared to reveal to society that they were elven.  It wasn't easy to hide but these people found a way to do so.  They used her medical knowledge because they did not want to chance revealing their different nature to a human doctor.  She had to admit the healing she provided was the only thing that kept her going on the mortal plane.  These people needed her.  She needed them.  She knew the veils were breaking down between the realms.  It scared her.  The underworlders would come after everything made of light and it would not be a good ending for any of them.<br/><br/>She closed her book as she wasn't getting much reading done anyway.  Her thoughts were stuck on her wards.  Had she put enough into them to protect herself from the new leak of the dark ones?  She sighed slightly and then stood up going to her stove and starting water for tea.  The first blare of the sound made her think the water had boiled early.  The shock she felt in her own magical body made her realize that someone or something was on her land.  She dropped her cup and it shattered on the floor in front of the oven.  She rushed outside leaving her front door open as she did so.<br/><br/>The wind bit into her skin as she rushed forward looking for the breach.  She wrapped her arms around herself as she ran down the lane.  She looked both ways as her hair whipped around her blurring her vision.  She could hardly catch her breath against the cold wind as it wrapped around her chilling her to the bone.  She shivered as she ran to the road in front of her home.  She saw hulking shadows disappearing back from the edge of her land and ran forward as she spotted a shadow laying on the ground.  She knelt beside the shadow and turned it over to see what she could see.  It was a he and it looked as though he had been beaten severely.  She jerked her eyes up to the tree line and swore she could feel the stares of underworlders upon her.  She shuddered as she realized she would need to reinforce the wards again during the daylight for they were working.<br/><br/>She leaned over him and tried to figure out how to get him back into the house.  It was obvious that he was hurt and whoever had hurt him meant for it to be deadly.  She ran her hands down over his forehead and chest coming up with blood.  She cursed slightly.  She had no idea if he had a concussion but knew she wouldn't be able to pull him back to her own house on her own.  She slapped his cheek softly.  "Wake up...we have to get you back to safety"