"Two Canes are supposed to be gods. They walk around on two sticks like legs, have very large heads, and can tunnel through the ground and fly." Konoe was beginning to wonder if what he was encountering might in fact be a Two Cane-they looked so much like him-but that was even harder for him to believe.

At least he wasn't picking up any painful surges of anger and killing intent anymore, so this guy probably wasn't going to chop him with his axe. "I've never been called an elf. We're cats, or ribika."