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Chapter 26

CHAPTER 26

B ?O NEVER SHARED THE REASON WHY HE HAD RUN AWAY FROM the motherhouse. It wasn’t that the Sisters hadn’t cared for him or fed him properly. In fact, they had been kind and patient with him ever since he’d arrived. But B?o didn’t think anyone else would understand, as none of the others had been as fascinated with the electric box as he had, the one the Sisters called “the television.” He kept his reason for leaving a secret because he needed to keep his plan intact.

His desire to leave came only after he experienced the wonder of TV. The same way he had once heard voices trapped inside his father’s radio, he was now amazed to witness men and women springing to life within this special contraption. One show in particular enthralled B?o. It featured teenage twins, a boy and a girl, who were dressed in matching uniforms of deep violet and black and able to achieve incredible and mystifying feats. Once their fists interlocked, their powers intensified. Zan, the brother, could transform into any form of water, and Jayna, his sister, could morph into any animal. Together, there was nothing they couldn’t accomplish, like the warrior Giong with his iron sword and horse . So every afternoon at four o’clock, magic washed over him as he sat glued in front of the box and waited for them to appear. B?o thought that if he could somehow find these mythical spirits, they could use their powers to retrieve his parents from the ocean and bring them back to life.

The woman who had found him on the street had been so kind, he thought initially she might be taking him to meet Zan and Jayna and that perhaps she was sent by one of his ancestral spirits to help with his plan. But she had only brought him back to a house that was cold and foreign to him. There were no fruit trees or ceremonial shrines. He scanned the house to see if he could find anything that might be familiar to him but discovered nothing. The woman too was wholly unlike the colorful spirits on TV. And her two daughters—nothing was magical about them at all.

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