"Could you say something, please..?"
Lailah pretended she couldn't see Eris. She pretended that she couldn't hear her either.
Eris made no more moves to get closer to her loved one. Her heart couldn't take being rejected again.
The two of them had been sitting in silence for so long now. It didn't seem to bother Lailah like it did her.
"Would it... help if I changed my face back?"
"That's the very least of our issues here, Eris!" Lailah yelled back. "Or should I even call you that?"
"M-My love, I am still-"
"Yes, yes. A very old power inside a very new soul. I don't really want to hear any more."
Lailah's hurt in having been lied to was only further compounded by a feeling of embarrassment.
She was supposed to be the smartest goddess to have ever existed.
And yet, she still couldn't figure out that a woman she'd been married to was keeping a massive secret this entire time.
And Eris of all people? She never would have thought she would tell a lie, much less keep a secret.
