Copperfox
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"Are you Russian," he asked, "or do you just have a Russian name?"
"What? No. My master just liked the name Ivan." He turned to Vissarion.
"Any idea what he's talking about?"
"We come from a variety of homelands," Vissarion told Mitya; "but some unknown power is making us able to understand each other's words--though NOT able to understand the native people, except that Jade can. So we're bound to puzzle each other sometimes by talking of things from our own homes. As for the part about an Elf: Ivan here was hurt once by a wicked Elf, and when you stirred the bushes we thought it might be that Elf and I was ready to fight him."