Val took off his other glove, then smiled. He set his hands down on the windowsill, looking down at them with a sense of serene pride. Adrien watched his glow rise and ebb, transfixed. When he realized what he had been doing, he snapped his head forwards and decided to focus intently on a tree past the window.

"You can look", Val smiled. "You're not being rude".

Adrien cautiously turned back to Val. He glanced again at his hands: now their pulse seemed to flow with greater weight than before. "...What... are they?".

Val rubbed the back of one hand, causing his glow to ripple. "Humans are a body which holds a spirit", he said. "Demons are a spirit which holds a body. This light is the spirit".