Palina answered the insistent chime on Tarifa's door, her face still angry at what had transpired between her husband and Tarifa the day before.
"What?" She screamed into the face of the female elf.
"Forgive… forgive me Lady Palina." The elf spoke. "I… I just thought you should know. It's racing through the city. The genomes… Commander Hunter?"
"What about them?" Tarifa came to the door, her eyes still red from tears and anger at what her father had done, and the betrayal of the Elders against her.
"They have left my Queen." The elf told her. "War Master Tareif tried to get them to stay, but Commander Hunter took the Queen of the Wood Elves and left with all of his people."
Tarifa's eyes grew wide. "He would not leave!" She gasped. "They would not leave unless they had spoken with me first!"
"Yet he is gone." Tareif's voice spoke as he came from behind the female elf.
"War Master." The elf spoke bowing her head.
