📖 Chapter
[the veil and the child]
The safe house in Enugu was tucked behind rusted gates and overgrown hedges. Inside, the group lay low—wounds healing, minds racing.
Kite sat by the window, his bandages fresh but his eyes sharp. Dimeji's shoulder was stiff, Amaka quiet, and Ejiro… well, Ejiro was still cursing love between bites of chin-chin.
Ejiro (in pidgin):
"Love na scam. If heartbreak be food, I don chop buffet. Make nobody toast me again o!"
Nkemdilim (smiling):
"You say that every hour."
Ejiro:
"Na reminder. Like alarm clock for my soul."
(The News from Nsukka)
Kite's laptop pinged. A message from one of his old EFCC contacts.
Kite:
"There's a child in Nsukka. Been drawing strange symbols on walls. Same ones from Obinna's journal. Same ones on your necklace, Nkem."
Nkemdilim (alarmed):
"What happened to him?"
Kite:
"He's missing. Kidnapped two nights ago. No ransom. No witnesses."
Dimeji:
"Luc's people?"
Kite:
"Possibly. Or someone trying to finish what Adrian started.rumors suggests he has unnaturally abilities.three police men already dead trying to rescue him.
Amaka pulled out the necklace. The symbol glowed faintly.
Amaka:
"This child… he might be a conduit. A living archive."
Ejiro (serious now):
"Then we go find am. Before dem use am do sacrifice."
🕵️♂️ The Clues
They traced the child's last known location—a school in Nsukka. His drawings had covered the walls, the floors, even his notebooks. Spirals. Eyes. Veil glyphs.
Nkemdilim:
"These symbols… they're evolving. He's not just copying. He's channeling."
Kite:
"Which means whoever took him knows what he is."
Dimeji:
"Then we move. Quiet. Fast. No mistakes."
Ejiro (loading snacks into her bag):
"I dey ready. If dem try me, I go draw my own symbol—na slap!"
🧬 Nkemdilim's Veil-Bound Powers(one side of the coin 🪙)
• The Necklace isn't just symbolic—it's a living conduit to the veil's energy.passed Down to her by her mother. But was activated by the archivist. In season one, she carry's the veil with her. The necklace It reacts to danger, emotion, and proximity to truth.
• Bullet Deflection:• When Nkemdilim is in danger, the veil activates a protective field—not visible, but powerful.
• In Chapter Ten, it deflected a bullet mid-air during the attack in baba osie's compound.
• It's not automatic; it responds to her willpower and emotional clarity. The more she understands the veil, the stronger the shield becomes.especially when she's with the other side of the coin 🪙 ( the boy in Nsukka)
• Symbol Recognition:• She can decode veil glyphs instinctively, even ones that haven't been documented.
• The kidnapped child's drawings in Nsukka mirror her necklace because they're both tapping into the same archive stream.
• Echo Reading (coming soon):• She'll be able to touch objects and hear echoes of their past—a form of veil memory reading.
• This will help her uncover hidden truths, especially about Adrien and Luc's rewrite protocol.