"Every few minutes?" Mallia's eyes went wide at that, and she looked at him with some faint expression of dismay and horror. "You jest?"

Her friend groaned. "I hereby officially retire for now, from trying to explain to her that entirely despite what she thinks she knows, I'm not a fairy, I'm an elf. I was never an insect, despite bugging whomever I please. That friend of hers is either going to clear up that I am not his father when and if he shows up, or I'll make him."