Chapter 387 – Inspire
Sira leaned back. "Sounds like a Celestial Game."
Lux nodded. "Exactly. And then… there's the mortal world."
Sira blinked. "What about it?"
Lux set his cup down gently.
"I saw something weird," he said softly. "A mortal company. Run by a guy with no magic. No noble backing. No infernal deal. But he fights. For his employees. For his dream. He builds. And they follow him not out of fear… but belief."
Sira stared at him for a second too long. Then tilted her head.
"…That's hot," she said.
Lux gave her a dry look. "You'd say that if I described a lizard eating ice cream."
"Only if the lizard looked like you."
He sighed, but the ghost of a smile touched his lips anyway.
"Point is," he said, "I forgot mortals could do that. Inspire."
Sira took a sip, studying him now. "And you want that?"
"I don't know," he said honestly. "Maybe. I'm used to being needed. Desired. Feared. Worshiped, sometimes. But believed in?"
He shrugged. "That's new."
