“I swear, Hide. You’re not human.”
His lips quirked up. “It took me a very long time to learn. My mother taught me.”
“Your mother?” Chizue batted her eyes. “Isn’t she the High Priestess?”
Hidekazu traced the elemental kigou carved into the marble ghost stone. The tablet’s energy lingered beneath his touch, ready to take him away from this disastrous conversation before it started. He stayed put. He ran from Chizue once, he wouldn’t do it again without explanation.
“Ah... I’m sorry, Hide. I... forgot. I’ve never met anyone like... like you before.”
“With a clan who’s abandoned them? Few clans are foolish enough to risk the future of their bloodline.”
“But yours is?”
Hidekazu paused. Didn’t his family realize how vulnerable they had left him? Or was losing control of him, as Dano seem
