Valerie almost laughed at the absurdity of her own thoughts. It was impossible. The odds of Zaeryn being a lost Lumina were nonexistent.
She would believe that a snowflake had a chance of surviving in a volcano's heart, before that thought crossed her mind.
She dismissed the thought as quickly as it had formed, settling on a far more plausible, if slightly unsettling, explanation.
"Sage Stellan is a certified genius with access to cutting-edge bioengineering," Valerie mused aloud. "Perhaps Zaeryn was simply... unremarkable before. She could have enhanced him, optimized certain features to her liking."
The implication hung in the air. Sage designing her perfect boyfriend like a custom project?
The thought was cold and calculated, but it would explain so much. It wasn't like Zaeryn was some robot that could be customized or a humanoid, but still, with how advanced Stellan Innovations was in technology, it wasn't something they would rule out as impossible.
