If you've known about him and the Planeless, Ahbi's sharp anger cut through my spinning mind, why did you not act well before now?
"We've tried," Bakari said. "We've been trying for over a year."
I'd never felt so shaken and vulnerable as I did sitting there, with the understanding even those who thought themselves all-powerful had failed. Maybe I should have felt better about myself and my own disasters, but I didn't.
Their inability just made things worse. Sure, I was off the hook in a lot of ways. If the Daeva couldn't handle the Planeless, there was no way I could be expected to. And yet, the way they looked at me, that was exactly their expectation.
"So he's like me, then?" I resisted the words even as I spoke them. Xeoniteridone was nothing like me. "Half witch, half demon?"
"We
