Bab 1695: Dangerous

Selheira sat in meditation, but she found it difficult to focus her mind properly. Although she was thankful to her husband, it also felt like everything she had been working toward had been taken over by another person and she didn't quite feel the same sort of achievement and thankfulness toward success that she would have otherwise. 

It felt like it one moment, she was spinning her wheels, hardly able to progress at all, and yet in the next, Ryu had swooped down on a white steed and elevated her out of the darkness. With just a few droplets of his milk, in more ways than one, she had achieved an enlightenment that she had been chasing after for decades. 

It was hard to reconcile exactly how she was feeling, honestly. On the one hand, this was what she always wanted, but on the other… was it truly meant to be so easy?