Kai figures he knows what that look on Marco's face means, judgement and disgust directed at an elfin who had a family and gave it up. He's used to it, used to people not understanding and knowing he can't exactly explain. Knowing that people don't get to demand his explanations.

"You weren't born to high status," Kai says, "But you have it now." That would have been obvious enough from the fact that he was sent to talk to the humans, to negotiate with them, but also from a number of other details. And the fact that Kai has done what he could to ask a few questions about Marco, about unsidhe power structure, in between the last visit and this one.

"I can't imagine people viewing patricide all that kindly." One thing the humans and elfin had in common.