Beka is not sure what she was expecting as a result of walking into a snake monster but an Elf city would have been very low on a list of possibilities if someone had jumbled a lot of random words together into place-phrases and had her rank them. "Elf city" would probably have been under "spider void" and above "grape juice ocean". And yet here she is.
Nod. Peka had a relatively safe thing to do to save her Cathei but both Rabka and Beka evidence that safety is not a requirement, it would not be the worst outcome for a landing Elf singing girl to have her baby okay whatever happened to her.
Do you not wanna come to dinner with my brother, he asks Peka.
"So is Peka's baby growing up faster than the other babies or does Peka's world have longer years than Endorë?"
"They're all growing about the same speed, seems like, so I guess we must have longer years."
"Oh, that's good, even-shorter-than-human lifespans would just be unfair."
"Maybe if we get good at plumbing humans will live longer too."
"Yeah. No one mentioned them but I suppose they might not have."
"Elves don't really get sick. Even here, drinking water that makes humans sick."
"- I don't really see how water is bad independent of making anyone sick."