"True, but at the same time, should change start from the top, it can be done. The problem is starting with the change at our age and beliving that the risk is worth the gain. At least that's what my father felt." Well most of the time. Lyra wasn't sure if he felt that her mother's life had been worth the risk in the end, but had he not, she would never had existed though.
Had Ash actually called her spoiled, Lyra might have agreed to it. She was quite a bit spoiled, but her father did it to compensate for what she often didnt have, being his time and her mother. He also did it because it was how he was raised and saw the benefits in certain things. Music helped with math and confidence, dance helped with grace and keeping fit, Languages and cultural training could help in any social situation she needed to go to. It was why she was one of Bella's few friends that was welcomed by her father, or the fact that unless people knew her father's history, they simply thought she was the newest Blackstone heir. But he also gave her everything he could think of, even when she didn't pets, things, knick knacks and trips.
"What the old antiquated cultural stuff? I bet you money that I could play it off well enough for him to appreciate it then. " But how hard was it? A woman tended to be quiet, delicate, agreeable, at least at their age. "Or do you mean choosing your fate for you?" Because it was kind of sad, but it was probably him wanting to have the power that he never had at Ash's age to make his own choices.
"I almost forgot." She said as she moved back to sketching, her eyes glancing at him now and again, her sketch more carefully hidden from his eyes. " What is one thing you wish you could do right now. First thing that pops into your head."