“Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.”
“Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.”
“But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. That's when you know you're a failure.”
“He contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir.”
“And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?”
“When the last dragon and the last elf break the circle, the past and the future will meet, and the sun of a new summer will shine in the sky. (The last Elf)”