<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a2/Saffvictoria.jpg)</div><strong>K'tanya</strong>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=220587.msg10848407#msg10848407)<br/><br/>K'tanya's emerald eyes widened when the blond man greeted her.  Though she'd never stood in the company of one of full blood, it was quite clear from his grace, strength, and elegantly tipped ears that this man was fully eleven.  She'd met a few like herself from time to time—elfkin her father called them, so much more elegant an appellation than half-elf.  She'd briefly observed ambassadors from Tangletrees and Everska at a distance while attending court with Caspar, her adoptive father.<br/><br/>But a true elf, just walking up to her like any other road warden?  It was a magical moment, triply so when he greeted her in elvish!<br/><br/>The redhead stammered for a moment, blushing a little as she replied in a poem of language--knowing all to well how simplistic her grasp of the complicated tongue actually was, little more than baby talk.<em>"Elen sila lumen omentilvo."</em>A star shines upon the hour of our meeting.<br/><br/>The redhead grit her teeth, painfully aware that she'd never spoken the language with a native speaker before.  She pressed her palm over her heart in a gesture of sincerity and bowed.  (To any who knew the body language of the wood elves of Cormanthor, the gesture of sincerity should have accompanied the greeting, not her introduction.)  "I am K'tanya of Cormyr, daughter of Caspar.  I am traveling to further my studies."<br/><br/>She belatedly threw Mercusio a grateful look for being firm and charming in her moment of uncharacteristic lack of grace.