14
The Nagi
“Try again.” Master Delun stood on the windy balcony facing the Nagi. “Do you feel her?”
The Nagi searched the recesses of her mind for the girl who’d been a constant companion for what felt like her entire life, finding only emptiness.
Thoughts rattled around her head, finding no one else to latch on to. For the first time since inhabiting this body, the Nagi was truly and utterly alone.
What should have been a satisfactory moment only left her feeling odd, like this body didn’t belong to her. Of course, it didn’t, not truly. But now the disassociation was more pronounced.
“Nothing,” she said.
Master Delun didn’t smile, he didn’t congratulate her. They were both Nagi but had very different goals. The old man still felt Piao needed to be protected as their mandate bid th
