Darian's eyes focused on Niara, who was frozen in time. The day he first met her, he managed to see her recent painful past — just a half-dragon girl being tortured for a hundred years.
Then, the karma she received from the deaths of the people used to nurture her added another dark, heavy layer on top of her.
Darian couldn't be sure that all of that came from a single life. That new layer created in her current life made him wrongly believe it was all recent. But in truth, she carried almost everything from a distant era and, even after living many lives, she wasn't even close to burning it all away.
"Well, now that you understand. Let's get to the solution." The dry voice of that figure pulled Darian out of his stupor.
