Kalika Chilson buttered more bread, lathering it on heavy and making final adjustments with a forefinger. "Sure. So was her father, but I didn’t mind so much because he had an income. Deja was just another mouth to feed. Her mother was human. Thought she was going to be human too, for a time. She goblinized at puberty—during the time I had her. It was nasty, I’ll tell you right now. You never want to put up with the grief that UGE drek brings on." UGE was unexplained genetic expression, by which elves, trolls, dwarfs, and orks had been reintroduced into the world as magic returned. Usually, UGE manifested itself in children at the onset of puberty.