"For humans it is not," he says. "But I am an elf, though right now I do not look much like one, and many of us were born before the suns first rising. We survived much the same as we did afterwards, just under a different kind of light."

He doesn't quite understand why the boy would wish to know what they ate back then, but children were a curious lot and humans did tend be a bit strange in their musings so he didn't think too much of it. "We ate much the same fare then as we do now. The meat of the wild animals we hunted and the fruits the fields and forests yielded to us."