I posted this on the NaNo forum, since that's why I'm doing this story, but I figured that since this is a Christian forum, I should see what you guys thought.
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I originally thought of having Nicole find the Elf in the woods behind her house, and finding an entire world of Elves, but then I thought of something. It's very unlikely that something this large (two entire Elven "kingdoms", for lack of better words. One normal, one of Dark Elves) will be hidden in a forest of any size in America and not be found. So I'm thinking I need to make another world. But would it make sense for Nicole to live in the village? I want it to seem REALLY unlikely to her that she's an Elf.
When she was a baby, the Dark Elves attacked the Elves and she was hidden near a house. Her mother died, and her father found his other three children (her twin sister and two brothers... who may or may not be twins, I haven't decided), but the family living in the house found Nicole and brought her in.
If she lives in a village near the forest, does it still sound nearly impossible? I thought about having the kids at school laugh because her ears look weird, but I can easily change that so that the villagers do things like that. It gives me another excuse for her never having a boyfriend :P
Seriously, though. Now that I'm done rambling, the main question is... I can change this easily, but does it work? Any other ideas if this doesn't work? I don't want her to go through some portal or anything. Just walk right out her back door into this world she never knew existed, basically (not literally JUST out the back door, but you get it).
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But it would be pretty easy to put it in another world, and I think it would be just as good!