Ndulue Clemency's Links
He notices everything in the Distortion Realm court. He knows when somebody is sneaking around or hiding things and Nyra isn't the most subtle about it. Well, certainly she is subtle, but not to somebody with his experience. After they talk about her intentions to study here and he deems her not a threat, he decides to pop in and tutor her, mold her morals while she's treated them like an afterthought to her studies.
Nyra is so used to being the smartest person in the room, able to fool anyone and everyone so Ndulue calling her out so succinctly and pointedly like he knows everything about her throws her off balance. She can't even really get a read on him which is unusual for her. But they talk and she's put at ease by his nonchalant positive demeanor that she can't help but spill everything. She doesn't mind when he comes by to tutor her or check on her studies, she kind of enjoys having a (sort of) friend to talk to openly.
As the first person he's seen/known he assumes she is his creator. Not quite mother, no she's not matronly at all, but he could see her as a sort of estranged aunt or community leader. He knows he gets on her nerves when he talks to her like that and he likes to push just enough to see her real power leak through the edges of her regal demeanor. Her power directed at him makes him feel like the first time he woke up, alive and strange and fully formed and surrounded by a powerful light, aura, something "other" that he can't explain. The same feelings he has when he sees Jihan's wings or claws, or her full range of magic.
She's found a half formed golem coming from the ground under her feet while touring her kingdom. She's dug him from the ground herself, and always threatens that she could unmake him just as easily if he pushes her buttons just so. He laughs but something about him does not feel derisive or arrogant. Like he laughs because it spills out of him when he feels anything. She only feels respect or awe from him, even when he's being a little shit. She claims to allow it only for the unique abilities he possesses and offers to her service. But really she only allows it because he's so Himself, despite being a construct. He has no traces of his creator(s) and for that he's interesting enough to keep around.