Chapter 31
One and a Half Aeons Pre-Great War
You can’t use it.
Luc’s reprimand echoed in Lila’s head while she watched him correct the architecture assignment he’d given her. She’d gotten an embarrassing amount of measurements wrong. So much for being better than him.
You can’t use it.
Lila fingered the architect program application she’d tucked into her robes’ pocket.
Was it stupid of her to learn these things?
Would it be even more stupid of her to give her garden design to Luc?
Or stupid of her to keep it? What would she do with it?
Stick it in a drawer somewhere, take it out on occasion, and cry?
At least, if she gave her design to Luc, he might like it. He might see what she was capable of.
In his hands, her design might be put to use. It might be seen. It might be worth all the hard work she’d put into it.
Lila clenched the pages in her fist, braced her skull against the obelisk, and stared at the Void like the darkness held the answer.
Was it worse to have no words? Or to hear the words of your heart claimed by another?