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.
"They're not supposed to have sex without being married at all. Neither are humans really but less so."
"I dunno! Maybe I'm just really used to being a slave and wouldn't know freedom if it bit me on the ass. Just I'm not all the way sure I'm all the way not."
"I really think you should go somewhere where you are all the way sure you're not."
"I don't wanna have to worry about how I'm gonna feed Cathei or find somewhere to sleep or anything, I don't want to go off somewhere strange by ourselves."
"We could, like, send a house-elf with you to do food and set up a tent and stuff?"
"Our family has house-elves, they take care of the kids and cook and things. if you want to leave but just don't want to be out on your own you could have one to help with Cathei and food and stuff."
"If Rabka wants to leave, could someone go with her and make sure she and her baby have food and a warm place to sleep and someone to watch Cathei when she's tired?"