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Chapter 25 - Keefe

Keefe stared at Evren's outstretched hand.

He wasn't sure if he wanted to shake it.

She hadn't given him any good reason to trust her—threatening him, making fun of him, ambushing him...

He barely knew anything about this girl, yet somehow she knew everything about him.

And he was currently in a very sketchy-looking dark room.

Keefe crossed his arms, taking a step back. "Why should I trust you?"

She rolled her bright green eyes. "Seriously? I just helped you escape from a bunch of police!"

"So? I would have been fine on my own."

"Sure you would've."

"I don't even know you!"

"I told you my name."

"Yeah, and nothing else."

Evren sighed. "Fine. What do you want to know?"

Keefe hesitated. He had so many questions he didn't even know where to start. He settled for the one that kept crossing his mind over and over again. "How do you know so much about Elvin things?"

"Because I am one."

Keefe blinked. "What?"

"I'm an elf. Well, a half-elf technically, but still."

Keefe shook his head. "I—I don't understand."

"Figured you wouldn't."

Keefe stared wide-eyed at Evren. "Well, are you going to explain it to me?"

"My mother was an elf, and my father was human. I was born half-elf, half-human."

Keefe was still completely lost. She said all these things like he was just supposed to know what it meant. "That's not possible."

"Says who?"

"Says... logic."

"Well, logic is wrong then."

Keefe wasn't sure if he was more stunned at how bluntly she spoke or at what she was saying. He shook his head firmly.

"So... do you have an ability then?"

"No, but I can do all the basic Elvin skills—telekinesis, levitating, things like that."

"And... you've seen the Lost Cities?"

"No," Evren said, and Keefe could pick up on a few ripples of sadness mixed in with all her other emotions, although they quickly faded away. "I've lived in London my whole life."

"Then how..."

Evren let out a sharp breath and abruptly looked up at him. "Next question?"

Keefe scrunched his face in confusion, squinting at her. He just couldn't wrap his head around the idea. None of this was making sense.

Finally he let out a sigh. "I still don't get it."

Evren crossed her arms. "Are you stupid?"

Keefe was taken aback. "What? Of course not."

"Then why don't you understand?"

"I don't know! Maybe because I've never heard of anything like this before? And uh, I don't know, maybe because I'm not going to trust the word of some random girl I just met?"

"I'm just stating the truth. It's up to you if you choose to believe it or not."

Keefe sighed loudly in exasperation. There was about a 90% chance she was lying, but from the emotions he was picking up, he didn't think she was.