Author: Thai
Challenge: Chocolate Chip Mint #1 - shiny, Sour Apple #16 - "what's your problem?"
Rating: G
Story: blood princess
Timeline: Fairhood arc
Word Count: 242
"Did he give you that, then?"
She looked up; Haytham looked back at her, utterly unreadable.
Her fingers tightened around the bauble in her hands; it was round, and blue, and it gleamed in the sunlight with a thousand brilliant colors. Things glittered in the center when the sun sparked off of it.
The man who'd given it to her had told her it came from somewhere special and unpronounceable; Etalee, or maybe Italy. "Yes," she said defiantly. "He did. What's it to you?"
Haytham looked at Asma for a long moment - his eyes were filled with a deep lack of expression, and that scared her.
"Nothing," he said finally. "It's nothing to me."
And as he walked off, Asma wondered not for the first time just what objection he had to Astor at all.