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Hua
Hua slipped further into her mind. Bit by bit, moment by moment, the small control she still had ebbed away, eroded by a river of fire within her.
Yet, there was one thing she could still do.
The Nagi howled, the sound echoing in every corner of their shared mind, as she tried to shift into the winged beast that had destroyed an entire village.
Hua wasn’t quite sure how she did it, but she held on to the unravelling threads of control and prevented the Nagi from changing her form.
It was all Hua had left, that tiny satisfaction, a small victory.
Keeping the Nagi from shifting took every bit of strength Hua had left, leaving her with nothing to fight to regain her own mind.
“Where are we going?” she asked, the words not spoken aloud.
When the Nagi didn’t respond, Hua focused
