Why Can’t I Have It Easy?

-This floor is ninety percent cleared. You have the opportunity to take away the remaining ten percent. Doing so would result in immense growth leaps. 

-You'll start to close the gap between you and that good luck boy if you do this. 

'There's no need to compare me to someone loved by the heavens.' Julien thought and shook his head. 'It doesn't matter if he grows stronger, I'll just go by my pace.'

-I am not comparing you.

El was surprisingly serious this time. 

-I am merely stating the fact that your hard work can beat his luck.

'El, we both know, in face of absolute luck, no amount of hard work can hold a candle. Let's not talk about it.'

-You dumdum, there is no such thing as absolute. The Tower has granted him absolute luck but it will balance things out some or the other way. The balancing may not be as much, but it will be there.