“Ten deaths are a tragedy, but also, difficult to distinguish from 7, and eventually from 4 if you work on it. As for more than ten deaths, that would be beyond counting, as one only has so many fingers, and surely the dead deserve better than your toes.”
-Ancient Elven saying
Lies are useful, wonderful, helpful; they’re tools like good metal, or the wheel.
But…they can’t always be directed. And if you really want to cause pain to the kind of idealist who lies to the people because she knows the people are idiots and will only ever advocate for things that are bad for everyone…try the phrase “redirect”.
Lies are very hard to redirect.
It does not take long to find out that Elves make a wonderful impression, which is normal for a species that teaches its young style, sociopathy, and certain kinds of magic or weaponry.
This became quite inconvenient during the six months when the Elves were not only evil and cannibalistic, but real jerks about lt.
They held these EXCLUSIVE soirées. They invited journalists and ate less than 15 per cent of them. They assured the crowd that this was normal; that those journalists had been a little annoying in the first place and, to tell you the truth, some of them just totally had the wrong opinions.
At the biggest soiree of the season, very suddenly, a beautiful and strong-minded princess stood up and said, “This is wrong! I don’t eat sentient beings! This is no way to celebrate.”
The Elves, being compassionate, still have her in one of their mental institutions.
As for Elves, we’ll never know if they were lying about the ‘six months’…or if humans just taste that damn good.
And if we DID know, we wouldn’t tell YOU. Get your teeth off my ankle, jerk.
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