Never since the night long ago when I had first found her, a mortal child, clinging to her mother.

Elizabeth is not quite eight years old, and a mere mortal child.

It is a mortal child I fear for, not myself.

Now you will be the hound to my hunting, mortal child.

"My little girl and boy deserve such playmates, if mortal children ever did!"

I was a born a mortal child, the same as you.

After all, they weren't used to dealing with mortal children.

How sweet, the mortal child, to give you everything.

But the mortal children all around him knew the ritual.

But the girl and boy did not look like any mortal children I had ever seen.