In someways, K’Lynn knew Harold would always be there for her if she decided to stay.  Her dream was to escape, find a way out of Pampa, to allow some educated, rich, Christian man to save her, take her away to the big city.  In some ways she practiced this scenario with Harold.  They pretended to escape convention.  Storm continued to rally against the rules of elves and the rules of humans, reveling in their contradictions.  Storm was a contradiction.  Her relationship with Beau created another problem, one they could only overcome together.  His being a thief, and her royal blood, meant their people were at constant war.  Only by leaving their villages, escaping with the others to conquer to monsters and new lands, could they ever be together forever, and in turn come to truly no themselves.

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