... Great knapsack race!" The elf king decreed, and all the little elves following him cheered happily. For years, they had been competing with the other creatures in the forest, such as the nymphs and the tree-faeries to keep their territory, and since their best knapsackers had gotten old and weren't as good as before, they had been slowly loosing their territory to them, tipping the balance in the forest negatively. The great shaman of the forest predicted that a young girl and her steed from a faraway land would help them win the race once and for all. But little did they know, that reward came at the price of...