Ilde's illusion is almost too good and too real, like a vividly coloured oil painting that hasn't yet dried - there's something distinctly different about her, even when she's hiding what she is, but it's subtler than some. Subtler than elves, anyway, but she's something very different to what they are.

"They were in the newspaper." She's got newspapers beside her, coincidentally, and beneath them a copy of the new Burnworth. (No one is going to catch her looking at that, it's half-hidden inside one of the papers.) There's a pause, and then she holds one up. "Do you read English?"