e audience clapped as the song ends, the player, a young, blonde-haired elf nods and smiles at them surveying his faces, he's pleased of their reactions to his song, a classic, you always have to trust in the classics, everyone knows them. Luckily the sun, at last, had gone, he hated how it hurt his eyes and made his skin itch.
Was easy convincing them to go into the nearby forest, not far from their village, "it will be better, the trees will give us shelter and will help us to ease from the heat of the day, besides isn't so far from your homes, and you all are adults isn't?" Yeah, that sealed the deal, nothing like prod at the pride of some youngsters to make them do something that they know shouldn't do.
"Four gals, two boys and a girl, not bad, none of them armed, a piece of cake", he thinks as he readies his next song, he plucks at the chords while his audience murmurs and smile at each other. Some girls seem to be really into him, looking at him with his big eyes and smiling dumbly at him, a daring one even blows a kiss to him.
"All right my friends, only two more songs, it's late and I don't want to worry your parents, right?", of course, the kids plead and beg not wanting to go back. But they settle and ask for the songs they want.
"I'm sorry I don't know one of the songs that you want, gonna have to change it, but I promise you that you will like the one that I'm gonna play, it's one of my favorites".
The elf takes a deep breath and wipes his brow before commencing. Just one more song and then the last one, the one that will be the signal for his partners, he knows that the scouts must be near now, as soon as they hear the song they will fall on them, quickly and silently, no one in the village will know what happened, he and the group will be gone when the villagers come looking for their kids.
"Dumb mistake..." he thinks as he sees makeup smearing his sleeve, luckily it's dark and the kids are too entertained to notice the pale, white patch on his forehead, this night, the elves will remember that they should fear the guile of the dark elves.