Book 10: Chapter 46
“Good morning, Ling Yue.”
“Good morning…” greeted Ling Yue. She paused for a moment after greeting me before asking, “You’ve been outside the entire day for the last two days. You haven’t slept at night, either. Can you hold up?”
I chuckled, “Of course I can. This will end soon. I can deploy my plan very soon. I’m very surprised to see you worrying about me all of a sudden.”
Ling Yue went red in the face. However, she didn’t rebuke me in a proud voice. Instead, she meekly lowered her tail and softly explained, “I don’t have a choice… The… the only person who can stay by my side, listen to me and I can miss… now is you… Tanya doesn’t speak to me. The guards direct their anger over Philes’ death at me, because of my identity as an anthropoid… Marvel has passed away, and I’ve lost the place I can reminiscence… I… There is nobody left in this world who pays me any attention anymore, besides you …”
I looked at Ling Yue. It appeared as though she squeezed a massive amount of sadness into her small body. I walked up close to her and grabbed hold of her hand. I asked, “Ling Yue, do you still miss Marvel?”
“He is the only one I’ve loved and the only one who ever said he loved me, so how could I forget him?” rhetorically asked Ling Yue. She wiped her tears before continuing on as she quivered, “But that’s all gone. Everything is gone. I never thought that things would turn out this way. Perhaps I was too naïve. I never ever thought that Marvel would leave me. I had lots of things to ask him. I had lots of things I wanted to say to him, but that’s impossible now.”
“It’s war, so there are bound to be people who die. Perhaps what you don’t understand is war.” I remarked.
Her hands weakly fidgeted in mine the same way I held Luna’s hand back then. She raised her head up to look at me and weakly questioned, “Can you still win?”
I looked at her blood-red eyes and asked, “Are you questioning me?”