Pfft, yeah. Being a king is a heck of a lot different than being some penniless urchin kid from a podunk farm.

[Not being intentionally self-depreciating here, but... Facts are facts.

[When Dimitri asks, however, Jade blinks, then realizes how odd her comment probably comes off. She takes another drink of water before setting it down.]

Well... [She tucks a strand of long, black hair over her ear, revealing the pointed tips with dark looped earrings along the shell.] I'm not totally human. Not that it's an excuse -- Nehrim isn't at all friendly towards outlanders in general. But I used to try and... "pass" as human as best I could, for a variety of reasons.