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"Exactly," Elnara agreed. "As much as I do like parts of the city" - parts only - "and I like sleeping at the cafe, at this point it's more for convenience than preference. The inn is about as close as I can get to the city and still feel at least mostly in my element."

Though she was certain she was able to hide her discomfort in the city. Although ... she was more likely to succumb to her more depressing memories and emotions in the city than she was at the inn, outside of the city.

"No...." Lore admited softly, "It couldn't have been called a city, a town maybe... a city no."

To be honest where he started out his life couldn't even be called a town, because it wasn't that accurate. To say town would to say have all the trappings of a town. A mayor, or leader, a healer, people who worked to provide the necessities of life with farmers coming in from the country side to sell their wares. There was nothing like that, true.. the people worked, but not at jobs like being a smith or anything. It was labour, pure and simple, labour to do work so the council would provide for the... encampment would be the best word for it.

"Uhm...." Lore wasn't sure how to answer that for he knew that where he grew up wasn't like where the other elves grew up.

Not to mention it wasn't like he was treated like one of them, and he found himself absently rubbing his cheek, the one with his tattoo.

"I left when I was sixteen, it's quieter, I use to live up north in the mountain area, there are some forests there with pine trees instead of trees with wide leaves..."

He supposed he should have been grateful, they could have really just cast him out, they could have killed him, they could have simply not cared. However the princples on which his society built made the people obligated to look after the Tainted, even if they were less than second class citizens and were always doing the hard labour no one else wanted to do. Nevermind the restrictions and the lack of culture and education.

"Different the way the Westland and Southland elves consider themselves to be different?" Ulani asked curiously, rocking Aliya gently as she started to fuss. "Or truly different?"

The way Elnara spoke, it was as if they truly were different races ... but how could that be possible, if they were all elves?

Perhaps it was a situation like the elves here, the tiny ones that the true elves referred to as pixies, but who referred to themselves as elves ...

Elnara laughed and gave Celebor a one-armed hug. He was so cute sometimes ...

"And there was an elf I met at the inn one night," she added to the others once again. "He was from some other elves as well. It's odd, really, the way all of Gaia's elves are so similar ... and yet so different."

Celebor looked up at Elnara and asked, "But aren't you'n me kinda like Sasku?" From what he could tell, they were alike - Elnara and Sasku anyways. Black hair, dark skin, tall ...

"No," Elnara replied, shaking her head. "Remember, he's like Kakko, not me - and her hair's green, remember?"

Lore nodded, he had wondered now (because before he had assumed it was dyed), if her hair was naturally green.

"I don't know if it's natural, but it possible to have naturally green hair, though green hair was a harder colour to get, even blue was easier hair colour to receive than green."

Ulrich raised one eyebrow. "Green makes a bit of sense, at least," he murmured, "because at least with green hair it would still be pretty easy to hide in the forest ... but why purple? Inconvenient, I would think ..."

But maybe it was just him.

"She changed her clothes at whim, I think she could do the same for her hair if she wanted," Elnara added thoughtfully. "But I didn't know her ... them ... as well as I thought I did, so who knows?"

She shrugged, pretending nonchalance.