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[The sound of a busy city square comes through first, with a bustling crowd muffled in the background. If you listen closely, you can hear someone... singing?]

[And he told our poor minstrel to leave or be hit, / before climbing a wall, the rude little-- oof-]

[That over with, a new voice, far less muffled and with an entirely different accent comes on the line:] Ah, if you fine citizens would indulge me so, I do wonder: what do you know of elves?

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Oh, does it now? Do share, bella.

[justonetouch]

Well, from what I've learned anyway... Some places have magic. Like, real magic and not just pulling a scarf out of your sleeve. Mah world doesn't. Nothing like that. [Well, not really.] But, there are certain humans who have certain abilities... Genetic differences.

[tumbler]

Abilities? Ah, yes, I am quite familiar with mages.

[justonetouch]

No, not mages. At least, Ah don't think so. They got mages in books and things like that. Fantasy things, like elves. [A pause.] Mutants, is the term.

[tumbler]

Ah, more storybooks. What of these mutants, then?

[justonetouch]

Are you even familiar with that term where you're from?

[tumbler]

Which one, mutants or storybooks? I am quite literate, I assure you.

[justonetouch]

No, Ah didn't mean books.

[tumbler]

Mutants, as I understand them, are... a derivation from the norm, yes? But from how you spoke, I suspect you meant something more specific. As you see, I am a master of specificity.

justonetouch - DW Comment dw_null@dreamwidth.org wrote:

[justonetouch]

Mm. It's a term used for, well, people who aren't like the normal person.

lol sorry about that, this is what i get for responding in email.

[tumbler]

Ah, yes, we call those invalids and cripples, where I am from. Yet you say you have no elves! How very strange. Are you sure you've not misplaced them?

<3 !

[justonetouch]

[Invalids and cripples...

But, she shakes her head, trying not to smile too much.]

Not too sure how you misplace elves, but no. No elves.

[tumbler]

Oh, it wouldn't be difficult. They're very short, you see.

[justonetouch]

How short is short?

[tumbler]

Oh, about a head taller than a human of corresponding age. And more lithe, generally, also. You see, not difficult at all to loose track of.

[justonetouch]

But, some humans can be really short, and some really tall.

[tumbler]

Ah! So can elves, or so I hear. Generalities do few favors, so you see.

[justonetouch]

You're the one talkin' about hiding elves.

[tumbler]

And you are the one who speaks as though it is normal for them to disappear from the earth completely! I am simply trying to understand your logic, whatever it may be.

[justonetouch]

They didn't disappear. They just never existed.

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How do you know, eh?

[justonetouch]

... you think people would have heard of them, if they were there.

[tumbler]

You will forgive me if I note that humans have never struck me as particularly observant, as a species.

[justonetouch]

No... But that's not always a bad thing.

[tumbler]

I think that depends on whether one is a human, no?