Guarded Origins

Her mumbling took me by surprise, and I froze in my chair as she flipped the page once and continued reading, her lips moving with the words silently. The excitement that maybe she would answer one of the questions that Kaelen refused to, had me leaning forward in my chair.

"How do you know I was stronger?" Her head shook back and forth as she slammed the book closed and tossed it to the chair ne