Good enough for Cain. If Raine understood what he was getting at through contextual clues, that just meant there was less that he needed to explain overall. It wasn't his usual line of explanations, anyway; most people he spoke to about this sort of thing already had the basics down due to their own life experiences. "Abel," he answered after a moment's pause. It wasn't as if Raine was likely to get the reference considering they didn't have the same frame to work from. "That's what he goes by now."

"It's more or less the same idea," Cain surmised. That was definitely interesting, because he had little faith in the ability of people to correctly interpret the nature of something they couldn't possibly experience. That didn't mean he couldn't enjoy the products containing those impossibilities, but the fact that humans in a world without them could predict elves well enough overall had captured some of his curiosity. "You mean the elves refused to participate in that war. How long-lived are they usually?"

He didn't care if asking that made him predictable. Cain had his own interests and there was nothing wrong with pursuing them.