A Home Like Ours by Fiona Lowe (feel good books .txt) 📕

“That is because they were killed off ages ago by the humans. We Elves try to keep their memory alive, so we learn their language, or some do. My family is one of them.”

Fucking hell, we humans killed off an entire race? I sigh as I am not shocked anymore at what we can do as a species. “Are there other races that are gone?”

“Many. The story went that when the five Gods created this world, they brought with them 100 species—all equal. But as the Gods gave power to the species, some become corrupted with it,” Lahana says, answering for her daughter.

“And let me guess, those mostly corrupted were humans?” I ask her bitterly.

Lahana nods and bows her head towards me.

“Some species tried to temper the human’s lust for power, but many were betrayed,” Lahana continues emotionally. “The worst of those were the Dwarves, the Gnomes, and we Elves. We barely, as a race, escaped. The Dwarves and Gnomes were not so lucky. Thereafter, humans went on a crusade of clearing the world of anyone but themselves. As the years went on, we Elves became powerful again and even lived in harmony with humans once more, for well over two thousand years. That is, until less than a thousand years ago, when a human became The Elemental Summoner. Little did we know the depth of his greed or his animosity towards us Elves. He destroyed us as a race. Cast us into despair and even marked us as animals,” Lahana says with such bitterness that I can’t help but want to get up and comfort her.

Maxil is the one to continue as Lahana cries, and Leeha goes over to hug her and comfort her. I can see that even she has tears in her eyes.

“For us, it’s still very raw. The humans marked us Elves as nothing better than animals. They eventually looked at other races the same way, but it started with us. At those they didn’t wipe out. As you can imagine, we have no love for you humans. Most humans do not know this history.”

“As history is written by the victor,” I tell him, with anger in my voice.

“Correct. Yet you, a human, feel anger for this. For what has befallen us,” Maxil says, his head tilted.

I sigh and say, “As I said earlier, I am not of this world. My God brought me to this world after, shall we say, an incident in which I died when I wasn’t meant to. I am truly sorry that your people have suffered at humans’ hands, more than you can know. But you must understand, I am nothing like the humans in this world.”

“And how are you different?” Lahana says, wiping tears from her eyes. The question isn’t asked angrily, but sorrowfully.

“Easy. I love your daughter,” I tell her with a soft smile.

“What?” she exclaims in disbelief.

“I love your daughter. Leeha has told me that on Boromour the humans will not do anything with an Elf as it’s the same as fornicating with an animal? Am I correct?”

Lahana only nods but says nothing. I look at Leeha and see she has a big grin on her face. She moves away from her mother and jumps into my arms while I am sitting down, causing me to fly backwards as she plants a great big kiss on my lips. I put my hands around her waist and pull her to me.

“You think they got the message?” I ask Leeha after she pulls away from the kiss.

“You know you need to tell them, right?” she whispers. I sigh, but I have to agree. I need to tell them that I am the Elemental Summoner. I get up with Leeha in my arms and I see that Lahana and Maxil are looking at me in astonishment.

“But, that isn’t the only thing,” I say, nervous about their reaction. I honestly hope they don’t try to kill me outright when they find out that there is yet again a human who is the Elemental Summoner.

“I am also, thanks to my God, an Elemental Summoner,” I say to them.

Chapter Twenty

The look of horror on the faces of Leeha’s parents makes me cringe inside. I was expecting an explosive reaction, so I had Earth cast with my palm on the ground to hide it, and an Earth Shield ready to cast if need be.

“We are doomed,” Lahana says softly, still looking at me in horror.

“No, Mother, we are not. Alex might be our savior,” Leeha says to her mother enthusiastically.

“How?” Lahana asks, focusing on her daughter.

“Because Alex is not from this world, and he hates what has happened, and is still happening, to the races because of the humans,” Leeha tells her mother.

“You mentioned that several times,” Maxil says. “That you aren’t from this world? Then where are you from?” he asks me, skeptically.

Going with what I had told Leeha, as Earth seems to be a magical term here, I nod and tell him, “I am from a place called Terra.”

“And how did you end up here?” Lahana asks, now the skeptical one.

“I died,” I tell her with a sigh.

“You don’t look dead,” she says with a snort of mistrust.

“That is because it seems that it wasn’t my time to die. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When I found myself standing, actually sitting in my case, in front of my God, he gave me two choices. Put my soul in the body of the person who was meant to die and become that person for the rest of my life, without remembering who I was before. Or come to this world, where there was magic. On my world, we do not have magic,” I explain. “My God also said he would be giving me tools to survive this world. I didn’t expect it to be the ability to use all five Elementals,” I say with a scowl.

“A world without magic?” Maxil says incredulously.

Nodding, I tell him, “I mean, we