Half-Elves
Arturo’s expression grows somber, more than Elliot’s ever seen it. “Ah… she must have mistaken Killian for a full-blooded elf.”
He looked well enough like one to Elliot.
“What is he, then?”
“Half-breed is the typical nomenclature...”
“A cross between, what, human and elf?” he guesses, slowly, and Arturo nods.
“There are very few true elves in the world, nowadays, ever since The Desolation.” Elliot knows he’s heard that word before… “Lasofria is one of the last of her kind, and her mind is… shall we say, not altogether what it was some five hundred years ago. Half-breeds are to them—to most people—a terrible reminder of loss. For her specifically, I imagine they are the physical quintessence of the… decline of her kind, you could say.”
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