novelzi Ch 2.54: Overdue
Ch 2.54: Overdue
Ch 2.54: Overdue
It had been hard for Elaina to talk to Prisma lately. She’d always been the one to approach, always been the one to to have to figure out what to say. Somehow though, knowing what to say didn’t make it easier this time. It was simple, but she found herself fighting her inclination to turn around and walk away anyway.
“Why?” she eventually said. “Why didn’t you just tell me.”
Prisma didn’t move, didn’t even glance back as she still examined the piece of mail in front of her. “There wasn’t anything to tell. Until last week, he and I were just family friends.”
“That’s not true, and you know it.”
“It’s not the type of thing you talk about. No one, talked about it.”
“They can. They will. I’m the heir to the house now that Koh took up the teaching job.”
“You say that like it’s a fact, like you having to marry him is the same as the sky being up and the ground being down.”
“If my father says the sky is down and the ground is left, then that’s what it is.”
Something about that last comment broke Elaina. her anger had tempered, was something she was proud that she was getting better at controlling in general, but it returned, swelling into a raging flame that rivaled anything Prisma could produce with her aspect. “That’s not true, and I’m not gonna stop until you realize it. I don’t care who you marry; you can be with anyone you want, as long as it’s your choice.”
Prisma didn’t respond with words, but as Elaina turned around she thought she saw something, a tiny shred of light returning to her eyes.