Chapter 5
I choked on my dumpling.
"Wha- cough! What?!" I almost shouted. "What the fuck is a half?"
"A Halve, my ignorant companion, are born of E'er." She took a sip from the bottle. "I've had better."
The e in Halve is stressed? I shook my head.
A realization struck her.
"Right! I'm such an idiot!" she facepalmed. "How old are you?" she asked almost sticking herself to me.
"Uhh... I woke up about a day or two ago." I counted in my mind.
"Well, there it is." Lapia pointed at me, sitting back down. "You are a being of E'er. Born with incredible power, but really ignorant. There is no centralized nation or anything of the sort for you, though. Halves are mostly independent from all others. That's good, too. Nobody wants a super nation full of ultra beings." she drank a bit. "Let me guess. You woke up in a forest?"
"That I did. Why?" I finished my first dumpling. "Want another?"
"Sure, thanks." the elf received a second treasure of culinary arts with glee. "You Halves are born in places where E'er gather. Forests, caves, volcanoes, deserts. Anywhere that could gather enough E'er can birth a Halve. We're surrounded by forests for thousands of kilometers. Of course, those places are dangerous to any other species. Powerful monsters live around gathering spots. That's as much as I know, though. My bad."
"Nah, that's a lot to process. Thanks." I sighed.