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// Prologue: Elenia 
// Story: Sword and Sorcery 
// by CCC 
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Princess Danae was not, strictly speaking, human. This was not obvious at first glance. Indeed, of the people who had known her since her latest birth, only a handful were aware of her true nature; of the rest, most did not even suspect anything of the sort. Even her own mother, Queen Ehlana, was not aware of her daughter's secret.

Princess Danae was not twelve years old. She had been born twelve years before; but she had lived thousands of years prior to that, in thousands of previous incarnations. For Princess Danae was, in reality, an incarnation of the Child-Goddess Aphrael; one of the Younger Gods of Styricum, a being of immense magical power, with senses and abilities largely undreamed of by ordinary people – though the mystical Styrics, in their quiet, rural villages probably came closer to those dreams than the more down-to-earth Elenes.

Princess Danae was also the only one of the Younger Gods to be in the city of Cimmura at the time of Discord's picnic.

This was why Princess Danae was the first to notice it. She was not the only one. She promptly turned about and hurried to interrupt her father's meeting; a spirit of chaos and disharmony suddenly turning up a mere few miles from the capital was the sort of problem that he was best at dealing with.

With her help, of course.

And it was entirely thanks to the Princess Danae that her current father, Sir Sparhawk, one of the few people alive who knew her true identity, found himself on the battlements in time to see the Sonic Rainboom.