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Hua
Hua didn’t know how the Nagi could stay awake for so long. She’d waited for her opportunity to wrest control back, but it hadn’t come. So, she slept, fading to the back of the Nagi’s mind, storing up her strength.
The last few days had been one nightmare after another, but it was the secrets that stayed with her. She’d listened to Nainai’s conversation with the Nagi, absorbing every truth that now made so much sense. The cryptic conversations they’d had about dragons before Hua left her home now held more meaning. The tattoo her Nainai drew on her arm before the ink faded into her skin. Had the tattoo held meaning other than a confirmation that Hua held a Nagi inside her? Was her nainai only testing her?
How had Nainai never told her family?
And who was this mysterious boy she’
