Day 6 of Ardbert Week, Wish!
"What do you wish for?" posed Azem. And he always got an interesting answer. Not from what they said, but how their soul answers, the myriad of wishes, selfish and selfless, was a delight. He didn't expect a second answer.
And he could feel the resemblance. See how they both were souls like his, yet developed on their own, and now seemed to share a body. Interesting, he thought, but inconvenient. And though their wishes for the world were true, their selfish wishes for the other to live rang clear.
A tiny bit of theorycrafting about ways Ardbert could pop up in the story, some I've been thinking about for Bera lore. Letting Azem stay unknown is lovely so I can get him to be whatever.