Speechless

Title: Speechless
Author: goodbye_sun
Rating: M
Warnings: Course language.
Created for a monthly challenge at: simhaven
Prompt: Write a first person narrative about being, or having a secret admirer.
Author's Note: This is part of the world created for my minirimo. This takes place prior to Shape Shifter.

I could hear them yelling at each other from all the way across the yard. That wasn’t something that would normally strike my interest, but I then I heard the distinct sound of my name in the mix and well that’s always a close second to an actual invitation to barge in. I mean I could have waited outside the door and hoped to hear more, but I have always found you learn a hell of a lot more by catching people off guard and sticking your nose in than by straining your ears. I stepped into the room and Kalden was the first to see me. His mouth closed up solid and he glared at me hard. Toste stopped talking when he finally noticed that his brother’s eyes were on someone else. A whole half sentence later, and damn my luck it was some rubbish about which one of them had the balls to do something. Kalden was the first to acknowledge me, “Siv, I...can I help you?” I figured I might as well push a bit to see what I could get out of him, “You know you should not talk about someone behind their back.” But that only made Kalden squirm about a bit. They were not at all easy to rattle. Toste draped his arm across my shoulder and said to me in the honey throated voice of his, “I was just telling my brother how useful you were on our journey back, and suggested that you could start helping me on my regular trips. By my word we would make a great team. Just you and me on the road. I think we should leave him to consider it don’t you?” He started leading me out of the room, but I glanced back at Kalden. He looked first at his brother and then to me. Damn, even after all this time I could not read him very well, but if I was going to guess, the first look on his face told me that the discussion I interrupted was not close to being over and the second…well that one was odd. It sort of looked like he wanted to say something to me. At least for a second it did. I kept my eyes fixed on his, trying to solicit something more from him, but instead Kalden turned his back to me. That was all it took for me to relent and let Toste guide me away.