“Or maybe,” Lena replied with a pointed look as she threw the pillow back at the other girl. “You could just pick one of those things and focus on that?”

She was being rather hypocritical given her usual dedication to keeping her mind as active as humanly possible to allay thinking about…other, less useful things. Beautiful, transcendent things, but nevertheless things that would certainly not make her life easier or hurt less no matter how much she dwelled on them.

The hospital wasn’t a bad start, and neither was the studying. She could easily see Febs’ shepherding adoring hangers-on around the museum but Lena also could not shake the thought that it would also be the most boring job imaginable. No, no, Febs could do much better.

“Not everybody can multi-task like I can after all,” she added airily, well-aware that other than her job she had absolutely nothing else she needed to factor in to her daily life, which was just the way she liked it. Or at least it was easier not to think about the things she did not have. “Do you want someone to study with? I fancy adding another string to my bow and I’ll bully you into keeping it up this time.”

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