The Heresay Over Heraldry

In a study they once shared happily, they got in a heated debate over the legitimacy of the word 'nothing.'

"It's not a word!" she said to him rather abruptly.

"That's ridiculous.  Of course, it's a word.  It's in the dictionary," he chimed back.

"That's like saying that something on Wikipedia is automatically a fact," she said.

"Ah, no it isn't.  We're talking about an actual word, derived from something and used for centuries before now," he stated.

"Derived from what?" she asked.

"What?" he returned.

"You said it was derived from something.  From what?" she said.

"I don't know.  I don't know all the origins of the words," he said to her, extremely frustrated with the trajectory of this conversation.

"You certainly don't," she said to herself, under her breath.

"What?" he asked.

"I said, 'You certainly don't know all the words!'" she barked back at him.

"No, I don't," he agreed and turned his back on her.  "Agree to disagree about this, I suppose," he said to himself, muffled and hoping to get away with a silent retort.

"I can't hear you.  What?" she said.

He waved his arms at her signaling that he hadn't said anything, but as usual, she didn't believe him.  Their relationship had resided in a shadow of a doubt for quite some time.

"What?" she repeated in a harsher tone.

"Nothing!!!" he screamed.

She smiled at him, with a callous and durable grin.

"I rest my case," she said, as she walked out of the room, leaving him alone in that shadow of theirs.