Kareta said cheerfully.It was a fortnight later, and the last two sennights had been peaceful to the point of boring. Harrier wondered who kept order in the Elven Lands, because unless they were a lot different than humans, someone had to. When he’d finally gotten curious enough to ask Ancaladar about it (and to explain something of what he meant), the dragon had told him that the Elven Knights did much of what he was thinking of, and the Forest Rangers did the rest. Between them, the two groups protected trade caravans, succored lost travelers, and dealt with the extremely infrequent cases of actual violence.“The Elves have been a peaceful people since long before your kind built cities,” Ancaladar had said. “I do not say that there is no strife or unhappiness here in the Elven Lands, for there is unhappiness everywhere. But violence such as is common in the Lands of Men … that would have to come from outside. And no merely mortal enemy can pass Pelashia’s Veil.”“Then why are there Elven Knights at all?”
