Saturnastra Nalini the Pied Piper - Chapter 4 Part 1 - The First Sacrifice

Nalini is a wandering Magus who uses a flute as a catalyst. Nalini is searching for something to give meaning to her life.
During her travels, this pied piper stumbles upon a mysterious elven city. The magical creatures that live in the border of this forest live in fear of the elves.
In order to help them out, Nalini decides to infiltrate the elven city. She takes over the body and mind of one of the citizens, an elven little girl, who is the daughter of an influential nobleman.
Through her eyes, Nalini starts discovering the sinister underbelly of this beautiful elven city.
For the last couple of years, I have been slowly, crafting and building up my fantasy world known as Saturnastra. By now, I hope you already read Marduke. Still, one does not need to read Marduke to understand Nalini. Both are their own stand alone book. In a sense, the true protagonist of my stories is the world Saturnastra itself. Throughout each of the books, you find out more about the world, and about the mission Marduke gave to his brothers and sisters. As with my other books, I painted the front cover. It features Nalini and Vaikus. Vaikus comes a bit around the middle of the book, and quietly evolves to be an important creature for Nalini. This book mainly focuses on Nalini trying to relate to the elves. In normal fantasy books, the elves are usually pure creatures who despise humans. I putted this premise a bit on its head. The way Nalini deals with them, will make you wonder if she is really a good person. I was never a fan of making protagonists who are a bit of a Betty Sue. In all my books, my protagonists will have more than a couple of flaws. They usually become more obvious as the story progresses. This is not a true sequel to Marduke. Rather, it is its own standalone story, occurring parallel to Marduke's adventures.Preface The book Nalini follows the adventures of the little sociopath Nalini. Unlike her brother Marduke, she cannot seem to even try to relate to the elves she wants to help. More than once, her little helpful ventures tends to make things worse. This has root in her childish hatred of elves. It all boils down to the elves thinking they are all that, and she being full of herself. In the backdrop of this, is the strange creature Nalini calls Vaikus. He is stalking the elves for reasons that are later explained. The way I wrote the book, you will start wondering if Nalini is a good person, a bad person or a good person who makes bad decisions. Like we all know, the path to hell is paved with good intentions. Nalini intents to help the elves, but often her help does much more harm than good. The book takes place in two settings. Half the story takes place in the Elven city, and the other half in a different elven forest. This book has more magical elements than Marduke, and the army battle is only one. I also go into details on how apotheosis works in this world. Apotheosis is basically how a normal person can turn into a God. Aside from elves, I also had fairies, nymphs, two Gods, and two demons. I also explain how demonic possession works in this world, and the relationship between demons and magic users. Nalini is a different beast from Marduke, and I try to keep the action and scenes fresh. I am not the sort of person who enjoys repetition.
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Chapter 4
When my Assassin left, I began to ponder on my greatest blunder. I had been too focused on my success to notice the change in my father’s behavior. He naturally had grim thoughts toward Nalini. However, his desire to kill me had only grown since the madness incident. It had reached a new time high last night. In his fury, I was able to see his true intentions. Thoughts and intentions are two different things. While thoughts are loose, intentions are hard to read. A mage’s intentions are almost impossible to read.
Yes, I had made a blunder. It was foolish to have underestimated him. As the days passed, I was able to read his mind less and less. It seemed to me that he was learning how to block out my mind reading abilities. I decided to confront him before he learned how to completely block out my thoughts. If worst came to worst, I would confront him in the flesh.
A week after the owl incident, I visited my father’s study. That day most of the family had gone out. As usual, he was pouring over a few texts of magic. I kicked the door open and sat unceremoniously in my father’s couch. This new behavior made him smile. He observed me coolly from behind his desk. I could feel him juggling an idea in the back of his mind.
He tried to disarm me by saying, “I know everything.”
“I know everything as well, father dearest,” I said mimicking Nalini’s sweet tone.
“Stop it with this father nonsense! Neither you, nor Nalini are my daughter,” he snapped. He checked his temper by focusing his gaze on a magical tome he was reading.