Of course. I always am in favour of mercy after much trial. I shall ask, therefore. I would rather be nice to our Elf Girl. However, if it is our Elf Girl Warrior, she will rather fight than submit, I think. Ivan should look to his sword. At present she hopes he has a plan, so she waits. However, the person in the most trouble is not the Elfen maiden, but Ivan himself. She may be tortured to death, but her only crime then was to trust Ivan, and his sense of honour. If Ivan goes forward and tortures the Elf Girl he has come to care for, he will have betrayed the trust that means the most to him, whether he now realizes it or not. The Elf Girl may die, but the destruction of Ivan's sense of justice and honour will either gnaw at him for the rest of his life, or he will become a callous uncaring shell of his former self. Either way, he is lost, I would think.Not my biggest post but I thought there would be a good place to leave you all. Isn't anyone going to ask me to be nice to our most loved Elf Girl? Her future looks so bleak. Anyway I'll post the ending soon.
Excellent set-up. I can only anticipate with some eagerness the rest of your story. Perhaps you have a surprise that I have not thought of yet. This is fantastic stuff, Darkmind!