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The whole issue with Sapphirus true origins was a mystery, one I would like to investigate, but that I knew was a bit too serious as well. If the child didn't want to cooperate, it would become very difficult to tell if he was truly a Cambion or something else.
However, if he had grown up just normally like any elf, and even having a normal spirit orb and everything, it could be said he was indeed the son of the king, Mammon devoured his soul, but left his body mostly untouched for the first years.
So perhaps his body was still normal even as his soul was eaten, the mutations happened much later… I won't address this anymore though, there are more important things to do.
"Then we're off! We'll come back for lunch!" Chris said, carrying two huge shovels with him.
"Yeah, see you later, guys! Take care, and work hard," Erdrich said, carrying a huge shovel twice as large as Chris' ones.