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

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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?

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[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.

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

[justonetouch]

How short is short?

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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.

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

[justonetouch]

You're the one talkin' about hiding elves.

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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.

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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.

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

[justonetouch]

An' what you define as human.

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I have always thought that status fairly... shall we say, static? But if you have a particularly individual definition, I would be happy to hear it!

[justonetouch]

Are all humans the same where you are? Same abilities?

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No, of course not! As I said, the spice of life is variation! Some are better with study, some with fighting, some with certain kinds of fighting... and then there are the mages.

[justonetouch]

That's not-[Quite what she meant.] But, only humans can be mages, or anyone?