~Chapter 168~
At Baas' request, Mae showed his parents her nightmare by slicing open a way into the nightscape and allowing them to peer inside. While successfully silencing Jao'faryn's insistence that she was anything other than what she claimed to be, it prompted him to ask a simple question that had a complicated answer.
"Then how? How is it possible that I sense nothing in you?"
Mae had long since prepared a plausible answer to this question, foreseeing a day when it would be asked. The truth being an impossible thing to give. Thus, with an air of confidence, she set her fingers to the top of her chest, and told them, "As Omb draws from the shadow realm, and those who are vowed draw from her, so do the Ji'vie draw from Nimaro and he from the Nightscape. I too, now draw from that same source. If I'm not using it, I'm not drawing from it, and you will not be able to sense it."
