To her credit, though she stumbled at the shove, she did not fall.
Cheyenne's chief grievance at the current moment seemed to be that she perceived this particular language belonged to her, and to her alone. Unfortunately, Talyssa reflected, that simply was not the case.
"I fear you have been misinformed about my... abilities," she said quietly, still in the "forbidden" tongue. "All languages are my languages. I speak them all, all that are, all that have been, and all that will be. The..." She bit her lip. Scientists. Doctors. "...people who were responsible for me at the castle, they told me I am what is called an omniglot."
She was not sure she understood the hostility. Most people were thrilled when they found out she could speak their mother tongues. "A little piece of home," she was called often and oft. Cheyenne was the first person she had met who was openly hostile and possessive of a language.