"Well, human women are more easily impregnated, because they're shorter lived." Imagine if elves and half-elves had the same potency. The women would need to be celibate forever just to have some peace.

She smiles hard enough to wrinkle her nose when he plays with her ear. It tickles, but she doesn't dare say so, after the torment she'd dished out to him only a little bit ago.

"Once every four months, for a little less than a tenday at a time. There's signs, so it's very easy to track."