Only six people in the world knew that Po had no eyesight and that his Grace was not hand-fighting, as he claimed; that it was a kind of mind reading instead, that allowed him to sense people and the physicality of things. In the eight years since the fall that had lost him his sight, he’d perfected the technique of pretending he could see, and tended to make it his habit even with the six who knew he couldn’t. The deceit was a necessity. People didn’t like mind readers, and kings exploited them; Po had been pretending not to be one all his life. It was a bit too late to stop pretending now.
