The offspring of a human and an elf is always a female elf. It is one of the reasons, many humans consider elves impure demi-humans, as their own blood is contaminated by the elvish blood. The same applies for all the different beast races. Though humans and demi-humans can interbreed the offspring is always a female of the mother''s race. This must be the origin of the demi-human category. It is effectively a racist category used by humans to designate all elves and beast races.


    The old elf also informs me that referring to all the different animal races as beast races is equally a racist terminology as it refers to humans comparing them to the beasts of the wilderness. Animal races hates to be compared to beasts, as this is to make them equal to kobolds and goblins who technically are beasts.


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    "I have heard that dragons can do magic, so how are they able if they don''t have a soul storage?" "All beasts store their mana in a physical location in this physical world, their mana stone. The more mana is stored, the larger the mana stone becomes, and the capacity for magic grows." This makes a lot of sense as the mana stones are often used as mana batteries or to contain mana for a specific purpose like in potions.


    The old elf admits to having scouted human lands on several occasions in the past. As he says so, I hear the alien language of the elves next to me. Turns out the young female elf as been sitting and listening to our entire conversation. "Don''t be rude speak the human''s language." The old elf''s reprimand reveals that even the young elf can speak the common human language. She is clearly still suspicious of us.


    "Did you ever consider freeing elven slaves while you were travelling in human lands? I know I would if I was in your shoes." "Firstly elves don''t wear shoes, but something we call mochies." Another elven trivia that I would otherwise find interesting, but I really want to know what the elf thinks of humans keeping elves as slaves.


    The old elf explains that it was for a time common for male elves to have one wife born in the wilderness and multiple former slave concubines to ensure many offspring, but the concubines were considered unsuited for motherhood and their children were taken from them and raised by the wife of another male elf. Though elven society is also a patriarchal society, it looks like the women hold a lot more sway in decision making than I have seen in human society. In this case it does not seem to be for the better.


    The elves set up a shelter in the shallow cave not far from my mud hut, which is surprisingly unscathed. I am reminded that it hasn''t actually been that long since I left. Months not years. I still haven''t been in this world a full year yet. It is hard to tell as there seem to be little difference between the seasons.


    "I take it Nadi showed up at your shelter." The young elf nods. Kira starts to explain the condition that both Nadi and I have and somehow makes it sound like Elianiar should be ashamed for giving me and Nadi a hard time. I am not sure what to make of any of it. I kind of get where the young elf maiden is coming from. However, Kira''s rough handling of her seems to have left an impression. She is intently listening to Kira''s words. Don''t corrupt the pure girl.