"Wrong."
"..."
'Wrong…"
"..."
"Wrong! I thought you, as stone-faced as you are, would do well in this! Why can't you get it!?"
A full day had passed since Gracy started teaching Riley the so-called 'Way of Cultivation', and yet he had spent all that time just sitting with his legs crossed on the carpeted floor of Gracy's room… with absolutely no progress at all.
"I am afraid I truly do not get it at all, Miss Gracy."
And before another hour could whisk away, Riley finally opened his eyes and stood up; shaking his head as he released a long and very deep breath,
"You are asking me to breathe from the core of my stomach, I do not even know what that is, Miss Gracy — and I am versed in the topics of anything and everything related to human anatomy."
"This has nothing to do with anatomy!" Gracy almost slapped Riley on the head, before remembering who it was he was talking to. The only thing Gracy could really do was close her fist and release a sigh of her own.
