"...I won't be able to bring someone from my tribe to vouch for me," she muses. "I might be able to get someone to come, if there's a bad enough emergency, but only maybe, and you'd only have my Speaking that they were here to do that; nobody else in my tribe talks. But I can talk to some humans, if vouching for myself is enough."

"Elves, well, elves are ethically-incomprehensible and dangerous. Very easily offended, and warlike when they are, among other problems."