Then they've hidden all too well; strange, when one considers they were once so near to us.

[He'd only ever seen them in artwork; how could he describe it...?]

...Small, white beings, perhaps up to a man's waist, with tiny wings and a pendulum bobbing from their foreheads. They had long, broad ears- a bit like a cat or rabbit- and in spite of their looks were stalwart fighters with minds to match.