Black Wings
"You're an elf?"
Raymond nodded slightly, still looking at the floor as if it held his full attention. Ravi sighed; he had read briefly about elves in a fantasy fiction book before but had never known they existed with concrete evidence, like the man beside him. At first glance, Raymond appeared to be a regular human because he didn't have the pointed ears characteristic of elves, as far as Ravi knew. "So why do you call yourself a failed elf?"
"I don't know, Ravi, maybe because I'm not a pure elf. I'm half-human," he said, sounding desperate and burying his face in his hands.