Chapter 064: The attack

It has been approximately two weeks now since Lyra commenced the first phase of her latest series of designs, and this morning she was seated with Drey in her office to discuss one of the finished products.

Lyra sat behind her executive desk, tapping on the neat stack of files right next to her, glancing at the wall clock casually as she spoke with Drey.

The time was exactly 8:30 a.m.

"Here, check this one out." She said, holding out a paper sketch of her recently finished work toward Drey.

He snatched it up eagerly, and after looking into it for a while, he lifted his head quickly again. The expression on his face was pleasant but also a bit tentative.

"This is nice." He complimented it, tapping one of his fingers on it.

"But if you may ask Madam, I thought you made mention of working on two separate designs. So what about the second one?"

Lyra nodded knowingly to imply that he was right and that she had not forgotten.

"That is quite true, but let's concentrate on producing one fir