What happens when you cross E. E. "Doc" Smith with urban fantasy?
- Elves still exist
- Near cities, but not in them, because of iron allergy
- Mastered plastics / glass / carbon fiber
- Have photon based computing
- Still have magic
- Are fighting a space war?
- recruit a guy?
- Thomas Mann the patternist?
- (elf) leader's daughter decides he is her soul mate
- A well understood and permanent condition
- thus is in love with him
- Need him as human interface?
- Need him to pilot a ship?
- Perhaps they can't get off the planet because they are tied to it.
- He's married