"Nice to meet you miss Ariella. I am from a distant forest, known to humans as Eldeen." Raphael looked at her for a moment thoughtfully. "As for the question I believe you were about to ask, I am what is known as a Leonal."<br/><br/>Raphael had trouble understanding why asking someones race outright was always concidered a rude thing to do. Surely curiosity was no sin. Raphael felt like asking that very question himself. Now that he was right next to her, he was not sure she was an elf after all. He had met a few, but she looked different. He decided that since she thought it would be rude for to ask such a question, he better not do it himself.<br/><br/>"And where might you be from?"