"Well met, then, Korrin," then, adding easily, the elven greeting but in the speech common to here, "A star shines upon this hour of our meeting."

And now it was time to take her up on her offer, because questions Legolas certainly had many and he would like answers to all of them, or at least as many as she could offer him comfortably. His curiosity was great, his time here brief, and to learn from another was his favourite way. He would not scoff at books, if he had to dip his nose in them, but this? This was vastly better.

"I confess these terms you use, they are most unknown to me, Tal-Vashtoh or simply Vashtoh? What do they mean?"