Fait Accompli: An Unwilling Tutelage

[Sal]

"And why?" Elke echoed Nevina's earlier question. "Why make them? Why release them? Surely you had to know that someone would hunt them down? It's not as if humans and other..." she waved her hand vaguely in her elven companion's direction and continued, "...gentlefolk can peacefully coexist with a race who would like nothing more than to, oh, I don't know, eat the meat from our bones and slurp out the marrow when they're finished?! Of course we'd protect ourselves!"