your palm

Outside the palace wall is the orange sunset, enveloping a thick layer of light.

After a day of lessons, the little prince walked into his palace a little tired.

Turning away the servants who were waiting around, and taking off the complicated dress, the little prince lay down comfortably on the big bed.

The palace was empty and quiet.

The little prince closed his eyes and fell asleep in the darkness under the curtain.

In the dream is a hazy white light, and in the white light is her.

As always, she was wearing a snow-white gauze skirt, the skirt hanging down to her ankles.

The little prince squinted his eyes, hurt by the light, but he still raised his head, wanting to look at her a few more times.

But she just smiled and gently rubbed the little prince's soft hair: "I'm sorry, Shujiang, mom can't accompany you."

The sky is bright.

When he woke up, he touched the dry tears in the corner of his eyes, the little prince was still in a daze.

Feeling a little weight in the palm, the little prince looked down and saw that it was a small elf with pointed ears and wings.

This seems to be the soul summoned in his sleep.

The elf was about the size of his palm, and its soft hair gently rubbed against his palm.

Holding the sleeping elf in his arms, the little prince folded a cube with a pillow towel and put the little guy on it.

The elf curled up in the soft pillow, shaking her pointed ears from time to time, sleeping soundly.

The little prince sat by the bed, looked at it quietly for a while, then got up and went to class.

This is the continent of Sheria, a world about magic.

There are many races in the Cyria continent, all living in different areas, and there are basically no conflicts in normal times.

Everyone is busy building the prosperity and strength of the ethnic group, and they don't have the mind to fight and kill.

Some wars were launched in the past few years, and it seemed that it was only because of some trivial matters. After calming down, the patriarchs sat down to discuss and felt that they were stupid.

The human race is the most populous race on the continent of Cyria.Other races dare not provoke the human race, not only because the human race has a large number of people, but also because there is a summoning formation in the blood of the human race.

It is said that this formation was laid down by a magician during the war, because the human race's own physique is not dominant, and it is very difficult to fight.

Every human being will automatically touch this formation one day at the age of 15, summon a soul that does not want to disperse, end their obsessions that do not want to disperse, and sign a contract with them.

The contract stipulates that after the human beings help the souls to get rid of their obsessions, the souls must protect the human beings before they die.After the death of a human being, the soul is reincarnated again.

The magician is really bad.The little prince thought to himself when he was walking towards his palace during his lunch break.The reincarnation of each ethnic group is independent, and the human race summons the souls of other ethnic groups to work for humans, which is to occupy the reincarnation time of other ethnic groups.

But I don't know what obsession this little elf asked me to accomplish. Could it be something like destroying the human kingdom?

By the way, in theory, the formation should not allow this kind of wish that is harmful to human beings to come true.But the magician who created the formation said that no matter what kind of wish, whether he can fulfill it is his own ability. If he cannot reach an agreement with the soul, he will go to find the next soul. The formation will not help you find it, but you can Help sign the contract.Originally, this is not a matter of strong buying and strong selling, and a win-win situation is the best.

The room was dark.The elf shook its pointed ears and flapped its wings, waking up from the confusion of death to new life.

The drowsiness just now is the process of materializing the soul body.If the contract is successfully signed, the spell will last for a long time; if the little prince and the elf cannot reach an agreement, then the elf will reincarnate in his own tree of life.

The elf hugged her knees, a small one, and sat on the pillow cover in a daze for a while.

The day of death seemed to be still in front of him, the sharp silver blade pierced his chest, and the pain that pierced his heart could not be completely dissipated yet.

Then he tried his best to calm down and carefully read the content of the contract.

The contract detects that both parties can start negotiating, and sends a reminder to both parties.

After a while, the little prince opened the door and entered the palace, and smiled at the elf: "Hello."

The elves were not very old when they died, they had just reached adulthood.Moreover, he has been living in a closed environment and has almost no contact with humans.

The elf sat on the soft pillow, lowered his head, put his hands together, and looked a little helpless.

The little prince sat aside, looking carefully at this elf that was only as big as his palm.

The black hair was draped softly over the shoulders, and the length could probably be tied into a small tie.Pointy ears.The elf is wearing a white robe, with a pair of wings hanging in the air on the back, which does not seem to be connected to the skin.

The little prince stretched out his hand curiously, after a moment of silence, he silently retracted it.

I don't know if this will offend the elf.

He cleared his throat, guessing that the elf had finished reading the contract, and asked, "Excuse me, your..." What is your obsession?

The elf was struggling with how to speak, but when he heard the little prince's voice, he was so startled that he fell back and rolled off the pillow.

The little prince reached out to catch him in time, and held the little man in his hands.

Well, a little smaller than his palm.

The elf was slightly annoyed, turned over in his palm, broke free in embarrassment, and lay on the little prince's thumb to pant.

The little prince blinked: "I'm sorry."

The elf froze for a moment, pursed his lips and said, "It's okay, I was careless. What did you want to ask just now?"

The little prince obediently said: "Your obsession. I want to see if I can complete it."

The elf thought: "Well... I think my obsession can be accomplished by myself, without humans. Do you need me to protect you?"

The little prince looked at the elf who was only the size of his palm: "..."

The elf noticed the unconvincing look in his eyes, and puffed up his cheeks angrily: "I am...I am..." He endured it, but still didn't say it.

The little prince hurriedly shunned his hair: "I know you are powerful, the elves must know very powerful spells."

The elf reluctantly said: "Yes. But I haven't completed the awakening ceremony, um... It should be more than enough to protect human beings."

Not elves being arrogant.The spells of the elves are the strongest by default on the continent of Sheria.The nourishment of the tree of life gave them stronger comprehension, and then created more powerful spells.The little prince just expressed his surprise at their poor physique just now, and didn't mean to question the strength of the elves.

The elf said: "It's better than this. I will protect you, and when you don't need me, I will leave. I don't need you to help me complete my obsession. Can you?"

The little prince obediently nodded in agreement.

After getting along with the little prince for a while, the elf became friends with him.

The little prince was not like the human beings his parents had described to him: insidious, greedy, despicable, only caring about his own interests, and never thinking about the feelings of other species.

The little prince can make delicious seafood porridge, pick his favorite peaches from trees, and learn sewing from the tailor in the palace to make clothes for him.

The little prince is a very good person.

When the little prince was in class, he would put the elf in his inner pocket on his chest.The elf thought it was stuffy in his clothes, so he quietly climbed up to the collar of the little prince, sat on the lapel, cast an invisibility spell on himself, and attended the class with him.

After a while, the elf became sleepy from listening, and little by little, his little head fell back onto the little prince's chest.

The little prince had been paying attention to the movements of the elf, and when he saw him fall, he suppressed a smile, and pointed his little head out of his pocket with his index finger.

The elf bit his fingertips dissatisfied, the little prince smiled and let him bite.

When the little prince was bullied by the prince who looked down on him, the elf used magic to pour him into a drowned chicken.The other princes didn't know how the little prince defeated the bullying prince, but the prince refused to tell, so they became jealous of him.As a result, no one in the palace dared to bully the little prince anymore.

At night, the little prince climbed into bed, thinking about how to improve the design of his clothes so that there would be more space in his pockets and it would not be so stuffy.The elf lay beside his pillow, with slightly long hair spread out, black and black hair intertwined beside the pillow.

The little prince turned his head to look at him, and asked curiously: "You said before that you have not completed the awakening ceremony. What is the awakening ceremony? What is the difference between an unfinished elf and a completed one?"

When he watched the elves cast spells today, he could cast a simple falling water spell twice as powerful.The unawakened elves are so powerful, what about the awakened ones?

The elf propped up his hands, sat up, and explained: "During the awakening ceremony, the elders of the elves will inject the strengthened totem into their blood. However, this totem has a drawback: the elves with this totem in their blood, They cannot leave the tree of life. If they leave the nourishment of the tree of life, they will suffer from pain all over their bodies, and finally die with their internal organs ruptured. Even so, the awakening ceremony will indeed give the elves more powerful power."

The little prince wondered: "But you didn't complete the awakening ceremony. Why?"

The elf was silent for a while.The little prince thought he would not answer.

The elf sighed softly: "I... I am a night elf. You will know sooner or later."

The little prince was stunned.Even if he didn't know about the elves, he had heard the name of night elves.They are said to bring blood and death.

The little prince touched the elf's head with his index finger: "I don't believe those rumors, I only believe what I see. You must be a friendly elf."

The elf blinked.He hugged the little prince's index finger and stopped talking.

The little prince felt that his fingertips were slightly moist.

After a while, the muffled voice of the elves sounded: "Night elves will be more powerful in the dark. The elves think we are an ominous omen. The elves never regard night elves as elves. The first time they saw the night elves The reaction is to kill. We are not the same as the white/elves, who have silver-white hair. The difference in characteristics is obvious."

After finishing speaking, the elf poked his head out from behind the little prince's index finger.His eyes were red and he said: "...I'm not very happy now. I want to eat supper."

The little prince was a little ashamed of himself for mentioning the sadness of the elves, so he hurriedly said, "Okay."

The two sat in the summer evening breeze, and the elf cast a repelling spell to drive away the mosquitoes attracted by the aroma of barbecue-a mosquito was half the size of his face.The elf looked at the boy who was tossing the grill, and happily rolled around on the lawn.

Anyway, now that he's a spirit body, there's finally no fear that the white/elves will find him.

On the little prince's birthday, the elf gave him a small gift box.Of course, that's pretty big for an elf.

The elf was a little awkward, with a faint blush on his cheeks.

The little prince opened the gift box and took out a note inside.

"This is my name," said the Elf.

The image of the elf holding a pen that was too big for him appeared in front of the little prince's eyes, struggling to write his name in human language, and he smiled silently.

The little prince is now a clear and bright boy.He looked at the elf's pointy ears shaking unconsciously, couldn't help raising his hand, and nodded gently.

The pointed ears were stained crimson.

The little prince thought to himself: So cute.

The elves are very interested in human books and often fly back and forth between the bookshelves.One time, the prince reached out to catch the elf who jumped off the bookcase, and blamed him, "Why are you so careless?"

The elf sat obediently in the prince's hand, flapped her wings twice, hesitated to speak, and finally said nothing.

He murmured in his heart: But I have wings, so I can fly.

The elf likes to eat peaches very much, and he likes the taste of the sweet and sour juice of peaches bursting in his mouth.But because the peach was about the same size as him, he hardly ever ate a whole peach.

The prince took the peach that was gnawed into a mess by the elf, and ate it calmly.The elf was splashed all over with peach juice, and was grabbing his wet clothes, looking at him innocently.

The prince said: "I said I want to slice it and eat it."

The elf took off the coat the prince sewed, and whispered, "But the whole one tastes better when eaten."

The prince sighed helplessly, and threw the peach pit into the trash can.He gently pinched the elf's soft waist and took off all the clothes on him.

The elf hummed softly.He is ticklish.

When it got fatter, the elf stretched out his hand to cover it: "This one is not dirty."

The prince said earnestly: "But I want to wash you clean, all over your body."

The elf blushed and was completely speechless.

The prince rubbed the elf's peach-juice-stained cheek with his fingertips, and put the elf into a white cup filled with hot water—it was the elf's bathtub.

The elf put his hand on the rim of the cup obediently, and let the prince wipe his whole body clean with a cotton swab.The cotton swab was still a little rough for the elf's skin. The elf was itchy by the prince, squinted, hugged the prince's index finger, and gently bit the tip of the index finger.

The little prince has grown into the eldest prince, and he is 20 years old.His ability has been recognized and admired by the whole palace, and it is said that the king wants to leave his throne to him.

No one in the entire palace looked down on him because of his mother's status.

The prince looked at the elf who was curled up on the desk and fell asleep on the document to be approved, and covered him with a handkerchief.

For some time now he had been thinking about his unusual feelings for elves.

Because the elf unintentionally mentioned a joke: Do you still need my protection now?He remembered what the elf had said when the contract was signed.

"It's not as good as this. I will protect you, and when you don't need me, I will leave. I don't need you to help me complete my obsession. Can you?"

The elf smiled at the obsession mentioned in the contract at the beginning, and only said that his obsession was to have the peach blossom sticking into the window.

He also said that his true obsession does not need the help of others.

The prince thought, is he needed by the elves?Will he wake up one day and the elf will no longer be beside his pillow?

A dark thought even rose in the prince's mind: If he confines the elf to his side in the name of a contract, will the elf not leave?

The prince tried his best to control his morbid possessiveness, clenched and loosened his fingers.

He pushed open the door of the study in embarrassment.

Now he had to stay away from the elf so he couldn't hurt him.

The prince told his friend about it.

My friend is the owner of a small tavern in Wangcheng.

Hearing what the prince said, he swept the prince up and down playfully, and said, "You...you are really a fan of the authorities. Let me ask you, this palace, this royal city, your prince's seat, is it as important as your little cutie?"

The prince said: "No."

The friend laughed: "Then you leave this palace and leave with your little cutie, why not?"

The prince's eyes brightened slightly.

Back in the palace, the elf was flying back and forth among the bookcases with fluttering wings.

Seeing the prince coming, he flapped his wings and rushed towards him, and landed in the prince's palm: "Shujiang, I have something to tell you."

The prince froze for a moment, his heart clenched.He pursed his lips, thinking: If he says he wants to leave, I will accompany him.This heart has been held by him since the little elf fell into his palm, nothing else matters, as long as he...

"I want to stay with you." The elf was obviously a little embarrassed, and he said this to the prince after rehearsing it many times.

The prince stared at the elf for a moment.He felt as if he had been hit by a huge piece of honey, and the buzzing in his ears was like the happy flapping of bees' wings.

"Shujiang..." The elf's ears turned red, his wings trembled uncomfortably, he felt a little ashamed to confess himself like this, "I will tell you about the past, including the obsession I left in this world .”

"My parents are both white/elves. They didn't expect to give birth to such a strange person like me, but they are very good. They didn't betray me, and they didn't abandon me. They hid me at home and didn't allow me to go out. I only Can hide in the bedroom every day."

"On the night of my adulthood, by natural vision, those white/elves discovered that there was a night elf blatantly hiding under their own noses. They stabbed the blade of light into it in front of my parents. my chest."

"In 18 years, I only have that small and stuffy room in my memory. When I was dying, I felt unwilling and resentful-why assert that we will bring blood and death just because of the different hair colors? The elves The words of equality are written in the admonition, but have they really achieved one and a half cents? Why have I never done any evil, but I have missed the sunshine, the fragrance of flowers, and the hustle and bustle... I am really not reconciled."

"What I longed for the most when I died was to be able to see the outside world. But now I don't care about that very much. Shujiang, I like staying with you. The days with you have surpassed my 18 years I am happy. The elves are very wary, and so am I, but I can see your sincerity. You are very important to me."

After saying this, the elf's pointed ears trembled, stained with a thin layer of red, and stared at the prince seriously.

The prince almost lost his ability to speak.

There was something in his dark eyes that the elves couldn't understand.

After a while, the prince's Adam's apple rolled a few times.His voice was slightly strained, but his expression was calm: "You don't need to accompany me, I will accompany you. I will accompany you to see the world."