That's new, too. Ysalwen is not like the elves Kazul knows, who are much smaller and prone to things like shoemaking, but she's also not exactly human-looking.

"Hello."

Kazul's voice sounds a little like a middle-aged woman with a particularly resonant and cultured alto. (Except with more hissing on the sibilants, as will be clear once she says any.)

Often enough she sounds faintly amused, but right now she is -- in a dignified, self-possessed way -- just confused.

"This isn't the Enchanted Forest, is it?"