Where do I sit, and what do I have laid before me?

[ rhetorical, as always.

but she is not an elf, so she does not have to assume her actions will be held as evidence of a rifter's behavior and another groups', too. ]

One does not play chess with backgammon pieces and find sympathy when they are trounced. Do you have any questions left unanswered about why things are done a certain way, or why some matters are not spoken of? My door is open for just such questions.