CANDEL EVE

I remember when my wife and I first met. One of our outtings was with a group of friends to a local swimming pool. I had already fallen in love with her, at first site, but she had just ended a bad relationship and was wary of beginning a new one. I remember flirting heavily with her whenever we went swimming. I could see in her eyes how the attention made her light up inside so I became obssesive with pursing her even more. With those romantic excursions began, not only our dating relationship but the beginnings of my story.

The main character in my tale is an elf who falls in love with a human female. While he flees from a troublesome situation he stumbles onto a beautiful maiden bathing...

"Near the river's edge that Fair One came

singing strange words that sounded softly like

the stirring of leaves caught in the wind;

singing his charms in an unknown tounge, at first.

...

He shared with me wonderous tales unheard of

by my people were the Fallen Sons of glory

those shadowed nightmares in the dark;

by which we named the Nephilim..."