Assa picked up her speed until she was walking next to Dawn. Will you always have this power? asked Assa.
I think so, said Dawn. Don’t know why it would go away.
Lots of people lose some of their abilities when they get older. They can’t see as good. They get deaf. They don’t move around the same way. My mother and father are always talking about how they feel old and creaky.
I’m not old or creaky.
But you will be. One of these days everyone will.
That’s a long time from now. Do commoners often talk about things that don’t concern them?
I don’t know about commoners, said Assa. But I talk about anything that I want to talk about.
Dawn laughed. You have no idea, she said. No idea at all.
No idea about what?
About anything.
Assa decided right then and there that she didn’t like Dawn
