Chapter 102: Power With a Leash
Chapter 102 – Power With a Leash
Celestaria pointed at him as she moved toward the gilded exit arch. "Remember. No unsanctioned magic. No seducing the interns. And no redecorating."
"Do I look like I carry a sledgehammer?" Lux said, raising both arms.
"Yes," she and Selena said at the same time.
Lux clicked his tongue. "That’s racial profiling."
Celestaria snorted. With a flick of her fingers, her scrolls vanished into golden particles, her aura receding slightly as she activated her formal departure sigil.
The door pulsed once.
She gave Selena one last glance—half warning, half amused smirk—then vanished in a shimmer of white-gold light. Not dramatic, just efficient. Like a woman late for an inter-realm Zoom meeting.
And then it was quiet.
Not the uncomfortable kind of quiet that hangs between strangers, or the too-heavy kind that clings after an argument. It was a light silence. A silence padded in divine upholstery and warm filtered light, filled with the low hum of distant angelic machinery and the lingering taste of milk and chamomile.
But Lux didn’t speak.