Point of fact. Ms. Smith wasn't the first elf you and the rest of the class had ever seen. Your school had two elves and a dwarf on the faculty. One of the elves was a moon elf and taught physics, astronomy and advanced mathematics, the other was a wood elf and taught the earth sciences (the dwarf taught shop). Even though there were none in your homeroom. there were a handful of elven teens (all moon elves) attending the school.
Your school had guest lecturers from all the "mythical" races all the time and, until last year, the school librarian was a tentacled "eldritch horror" named Mrs. Campbell.
(Mrs. Campbell was a very sweet old "lady" who had a wicked sense of humor and actually helped you and Sid plan a few of your more successful and elaborate pranks.)
No, it wasn't the fact that Ms. Smith was a moon elf that had the entire class stunned. She was fair skinned and had hair that was so blonde it was almost white, but all moon elves have that "ultra-Nordic" look, It wasn't that Ms. Smith was beautiful. You never saw an ugly elf.
To put it bluntly, it was Ms. Smith's body. Up until now, every elf you had ever met was built on slender lines. Ms. Smith looked like what would happen if the plastic surgeon who had done all that work on Valeria Lukyanova back when she was twenty something had decided to give her pointed ears and other elven facial features.
As Ms. Smith droned on with a short history of herself, including the necessity of having to call herself 'Smith,' instead of her real name, which was unpronounceable by most humans, your brain was already shifting gears. By the time Ms. Smith began calling roll, you had
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