After the announcer was done, Lucy walked away, her head bowed, despite brooding. Number one, she still did manage to please her mother.
The scene soon shifted once again, and it was one of Lucy sitting beside Slithers. She was far from the rest of the other students that sat together and watched, all seemingly waiting for someone to walk into the training grounds.
Her eyes told that she wanted to be close. She wanted to sit beside them and have the talks that they were all having, but she could not. Her mother would never allow that.
If she wanted to be an angel that could serve the gods the best, she had to pull away from every distraction and focus.
Aren could see her pain through the eyes of the snake, but beyond that pain, he could see rejection, anger, someone that was sick of a system.
'She is hurting inside, I can tell'
