[ fairy tale? elves have a complicated history? what?? many confused faces. although that does bring up, since ness by now has had an opportunity to notice she has experienced some, uh, changes— ]

Ah, on the subject of elves—I won't say anything about fairy tales, I swear—I... Well, this is going to sound ridiculous, but I seem to have... lost my ears?

[ she tucks her hair behind her very much existent ears, showing them off—them and their very rounded, blunt, human tips. ]

My father where I'm from is an elf, and my mother is a half-elf. This isn't the normal shape of my ears, [ and she is being very, very cool about it, she thinks, ] and I was wondering, does that... happen often?