Roan walked to the end of the tunnel on the installation's side. Looking at the enormous black sphere buildings floating in that place, he tried to understand what they were about.
Meanwhile, Rean asked Xian other things. "Right, Xian, you said that Umbras can feel the intentions of living beings like us, didn't you? How did you hide us from Calanti earlier then? By the way, do you mind if I call your emotional energy just shadow energy instead? It makes things easier to understand."
Xian extracted a little bit of his shadow/emotional energy. "Shadow Energy is fine, it fits." Then he explained what he knew. "You see, it's our bodies. We can't feel each other's intentions because of the emotional energy that we are made of. I just covered you with some of my own emotional energy... or shadow energy... and that blocked the intentions from your souls from coming out."
"I see..." Rean nodded. "How old are you, Xian? Do you know?"
