Challenge 3 EXCERPT

Here is a small excerpt to my newest project. Perhaps comments will help get my creative juices flowing again. Please help.

At the foot of the Nyrie Vale lies a prosperous, quintessential village by the name of Greenflower, aptly named, passers-by would say, for the village, come spring, was found to be abundant in resplendent flora and greenery. They live in peace and harmony here, the people of Greenflower, enjoying the flowing river, the forest, and the simplicity that a calm environment brings to their lifestyle. Things were not always this wondrous; however, as the surrounding lands that makes up the Kingdom of Aynor, ruled by King Loren Matheus, and Elora, his Queen, were plagued by Zelya, an evil an enchantress and her beasts most foul.

If there is one name that every man, woman, and child across the Kingdom of Aynor, knows, it is that of Theophilius Zin, the Kings favoured knight. For many, he is on par with the heroes of yore, a knight standing against evil and injustice. Alongside his brother Cyrillus Zin, Theophilius was the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, having fought valiantly against all manner of Zelya's vile foes.

It was summer when the brothers Zin, leaving the salubrious village of Greenflower, set out across the vale, following alongside the River Keld, their destination lying through and to the east of the Forest of Elek. They travelled on swift feet through the greenwood, golden sunlight warming the air as it filtered lazily through the forest in leaf, casting dappled shadows upon the earthen ground.

Over a small hill, lying just beyond the final copse of trees, nestled in the valley, lay the neighbouring village, Bluefield, sister village to Greenflower. Theophilius and Cyrillus had visited Bluefield many a time, partaking in boyish excursions of a day or a week, chasing skirts and making merry. As the weak moonlight filtered through the trees, the ever darkening sky chasing the grass into shadow at the coming of the dusk, the two brother's were stopped in their tracks at the sight that greeted them now.