"- not by you, child. I won't hurt you. Don't be afraid."
Aspexia smashes one hand into the wall beside her. Stone cracks, her hand does not.
"Am I being mocked? This is what it takes? This? There was no mathematics in that, whether incomprehensible to me or otherwise! There was no brilliant Law she had uncovered! The asexual out of Keltham's tropes is just able to answer anyways, because she is favored of the tropes? Half my life I searched, and that is the answer? The only answer, I now have little doubt, after seeing it, that I am ever to receive? Do the tropes think it wise to mock me so? Do they think I cannot find a way to injure them in return?"