Ash stared at Nox. Something about the boy no longer felt like a mystery. It was becoming clear, and that clarity was what unsettled him most.
He had entered Ash's soul. Increased his soul pool from nothing. Reached into a Soulspace while still a child. And now claimed to have Soulcores unlike anything that existed in Varagos.
Ash didn't need a scholar to spell it out. The signs were too many, too loud to ignore.
He met the boy on an asteroid. Of course, he wasn't from Varagos. That much was now a fact, not a theory.
Ash finally spoke.
"You're not from Varagos. I'm sure of it now. So tell me… what race are you?"
Nox tilted his head, almost as if the question itself didn't make sense.
"Oh. That. I don't know. It was blank when I heard it."
"Blank?"
