Volume 23: Rising Winds and Swirling Clouds, Chapter 19: Blazing Flames and Signal Smoke

"Shatima?" Komer was taken aback, before saying, "Hasn't she told you about her origins?"

"No, every time I ask her, she just beats around the bush and refuses to give a straight answer. She only says that meeting you was purely by chance, um, that there is nothing special between you two, just ordinary friends. But however I look at her expression, it doesn't seem quite natural. Yet I feel there is nothing secretive about the relationship between the two of you. When I press her for answers, she tells me to ask you, saying that it is up to you to decide whether the question can be answered or not. Komer, tell me, what exactly is going on?" Vero's bright eyes rested on his uncertain face.