“It’s like…life force, or breath. Our spirit. What makes us human. And we believe that all qi is like water,” said Tao. She thought back to how her Baba had once explained it to her as a child, and tried to remember the words he had used, translating roughly in her mind. “Like a mountain pool, fed from a waterfall and flowing away again in many forms—some over rock, some through forest, some sinking deep into land. Water leaves this pool but also returns to it. And in this way, all people come from the same pool, and will return to it in time.”
