( through the sustained connection of Communion, there is a vague shudder; a reflexive sort of defensiveness, like the prickling of the porcupine. it lasts just for a moment before smoothing out. )

Have you spoken to those who share its Legacy?

( he doesn't recall the specifics, but he thought the Innocents among the Kenoma's number had some sort of experience while in Venera. )

At the time, the Regent told me that the creature was one born from the Innocent's Legacy, and it had used its power to try to "shape" me by infecting me with its aspect. Perhaps it did have something to do with Legacy, though contrary, or at the very least what I had done to upset it.

( sadly it was in a thread with someone else where the Regent had found it ironic that it had ended up with its mark on a Firebrand, both when it came to estinien but also when it came to makoto's curse... so he can't bring it up here. )

I was present both times when the creature manifested, or watched memories of those who were there after I fell unconscious in the first. From my perspective, it seemed to lash out at whatever threatened it. That, and interact with those who reasoned with it. I can't say for certain if those affected are the same as the lights that you saw, but that would be my guess, at least.