<div class="floatleft">(https://yt3.ggpht.com/a-/AAuE7mBViEXufNE3sOcr1sfm2PL7B4vFb6ocvHP9Cg=s240-mo-c-c0xffffffff-rj-k-no)</div><br/>"I do not remember seeing you in village before, I am sure I would had remembered seeing a fine elven lady moving about. What business has brought you to Yelmed?"<br/><br/>Vanessë sat back down as Erin took his seat.  She was sitting with perhaps a slightly more erect posture than she had previously, "Perhaps you may have seen me playing in the meadows ten years ago."  She didn't remember Erin from back then, but didn't mention that.  She had never really played with the village boys.  Well, besides Soveliss's children, since their families visited each other quite frequently.  But the village girls' idea of fun seemed to be largely about dancing in the fields, braiding each other's hair, and reading books, all activities that lacked appeal among most of the boys.<br/><br/>She smiled at the memories, then continued, "My family had moved back to Arashalu.  I've only just returned to Yelmed two days after the last full moon, to be apprenticed to Master Soveliss Galanodel."  She watched has he began digging into the food that had been laid out on the table.  She wasn't a big eater herself, and delicately began cutting the vegetables on her plate into smaller pieces, as Delnir said, "We do not get many elves from the court to even pay visit to Yelmed. Even if I am simple country wife I do like some fresh wind of refined culture time to time blow through Yelmed."<br/><br/>"You speak of us too highly," she responded teasingly.  Well, it was true that the refinement of the Elvish courts were unsurpassed by most standards.  Many aspects of human culture had been taught by the elves and eagerly imitate them.  But she saw that refinement could also mean other things:  insularity, a sense of superiority.  These she didn't care much for, even if she had probably subconsciously adopted many of their thinking patterns.  "As it may be," she added, "the village life holds its own charms that are hard to come by in the noble courts."<br/><br/>She looked curiously back to Erin, "So you are a traveling merchant?  Where have your travels taken you?"