"Since you’re getting this message," Larisa said, "I guess something went wrong. Maddock has been acting edgy the last tew days, so I suppose they’re going to try to take Emma soon. I don’t know everything that’s behind the scam, but I do know that an elf couple somewhere is wanting to buy an elf baby, and that they’ve got millions to spend doing it. The doctors checked me to make sure Emma was an elf embryo. Maybe if she hadn’t been, they’d have let us go. I don’t know."