Aligning with her Shard

Defiant turned, but didn't say 'yes'.

"She figured it out. How to navigate the space, how to interact with it. How to throw herself off a high cliff while leaping over a ravine, crash through the surface on the other side, and resurface while wearing… I think it was the costume she used to wear when she was Glory Girl."

"Working with her agent, too," Sveta volunteered. "Damsel knew how to handle the space, but she didn't have that connection to her agent."

*****

"Being good at that is not necessarily reassuring," Defiant told me.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because that implies a stronger connection to your agent. And we know for a fact the agents are aggressive and conflict-driven. If it's cooperating with you and you're finding yourself in parallel to it, that's concerning."

- Sundown 17.1