Lucian was beginning to get the gold theme. She said that in her order, gold stood for purity and God's favor.
She also said with a smile that never quite left that it was very expensive, which had always made sense to her in a philosophical way. It made sense that the divine would also like good materials if it liked people.
"You're wearing your whole treasury," Octavia said, sitting on the floor with her legs crossed and her arms on her knees, watching Serenia with the real interest of someone who knows they are kindred spirits.
"Only the portable part," Serenia said calmly.
The way she talked about healing was the only thing that broke through Lucian's laughter and made him feel something real.
She said she didn't fight because she couldn't, but because it was her job to make sure the people she helped didn't have to fight their way out of situations that a better defensive strategy could have stopped.
