"Have your wings where he can see them," Elihu says after a moment of thought. "My brother is old enough to remember a time before there were such creatures as humans and is prone, when angry, to think of them as little more than animals."

"Her being your wife will be the sticking point, for him. He would never accept a human as worthy of being the equal of ANY of our kind, even such a vile creature as Heka. I do not know if he is capable of accepting someone as an equal who is not our kind but not human either."