My father was an alfe

I gulped listening to my mother speak so knowledgeably. I now wanted to know everything about my life even though it was scary.

" you see my darling, humans have always talked about us without much conviction for the majority. They were just stories for their myths and urban legends but they do exist. These legends were born from the fact that some humans glimpsed our existence centuries ago and now it has fed their tale. Vampires, lycanthropes, witches, and even Goblins, all these creatures that we believe come from the imagination of novelists exist and I think I have given you the proof of it, don't I?."

I nodded and she continued.

"There are many species apart from those I mentioned but since those are the most famous, I only stopped there. There is a species that has always been taboo even among creatures that we are. They are, I would say, the race to be slaughtered and they have the hatred of the others who hunt them and kill them without pity."

My mother looked sad for a momen