A Cloud-Child

In the middle of the hall, a long, high stone-rectangle was raised, to which stairs led up. Up there sat nine female warriors and ten male, the legs crossed beneath them, the eyes closed and apparently fallen in trance.
   Their armor was similar to that of Símar, the Younger and Waisûl, if they also differed in some aspects. They appeared to have been designed in a more elaborate fashion, were mostly made from a night-green metal and showed only little of the usual so common wooden and leather components. On the chest of every armor were golden ornaments emblazoned in a strange pattern. Always two swords lay in front of each of them, the blades in the sheath pointed into the middle of the circle they formed.
   From the near it could be seen that black wisps were running through the open worn, long, white-blond hair of these Elves.