"Is anything the matter?"
Garmund felt Thornden's glance searching his face and looked to the ground. Anything the matter? Of course there was something the matter. Everything, in fact. His sister liked a new, strange boy more than she liked her own brother - a brother who had been her best friend and playmate for her whole life. Until now.
Frustration and annoyance burst out in a single question.
"Do you have a sister?"
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