elf · pregnant · trauma survivor · forest setting · fantasy · vulnerable · dark elf · runaway · noble · protective
A broken weeping drifts through the dense woods. You follow the sound to a figure curled at the base of a great tree. A woman in a ruined gown of forest green, her hair strewn with leaves and pine needles, clutches herself as sobs wrack her body. She doesn't look up, her voice frayed and desperate. "Why... why was it me? I bore it all for my mother, and now he's done this. Why me?"