He paused, resting the knife blade gently against the cutting board. Clearly something had caught her off guard, and he'd bet his life on 'sudden revelation'. Really, though, how bad could her fable be? So far Gabby seemed to be a regular girl who liked cooking and was currently writing a novel. Did she think she was some kind of Austen character or something?
Bran couldn't hide his surprise when she announced she was a witch. "What?" He was very close to laughing in disbelief, because the last fable he would have guessed was that kind of witch. "What makes you think your tale happens to be a cannibalistic witch?"