Elf-blooded humans. [ What a strange turn of phrase. Accurate enough, though. ] That's what you call half-elves and their kin? That's what I am, I suppose. Although I could just as easily be a human-blooded elf.

[ The thought of that makes him laugh, mostly because of the outrage it would provoke back home. ]

That would please no one at all. I know there's much ire here, but it's a shame that language would stoke it at all. Will you say something in your own tongue? I wonder how closely it would resemble the elven tongue of my own world.