A terrified peasant family huddles in the corner, fearing for their lives.

Farmer John:
>	No, please! Spare my wife and children!

Mother John:
>	Have mercy, master monster!

An unsettling, grotesque figure menaces them. It's our old friend Airek Halfogre.

Airek:
>	I'm telling you people, I'm not the monster!

>	The monster's after me!

Airek spins in fright.

Offstage voice:
>	Yoo hoo!

Airek:
>	Gak!

>	Here it comes now!

>	Hide me!

Glynhial runs across the field. She has lost her ogre.

Glynhial:
>	Little big-nose! Where are you?

Title: Elf Life, the Here and Now.