"Our human mother raised us for the youngest years," Vax explained, though he didn't embroider all of the details into it. "Then we lived a short while with our elven father." Until they tried to go back home, and found their home was no more.

"That didn't work out," he said plainly, and put together with what he'd just said about acceptance, she might guess as to why. "We were adolescents when we set out on our own."