Nadia Kapur

Dr. Nadia Kapur was a minor character in A Trick of Light.

Description
Kapur was described as a smart and funny person to talk to. Having worked in psychology for twenty years, Kapur was a rational woman with common sense and strong intuition. Empathic towards her patients, Kapur dispensed advice on accepting changes in life or how it is natural to feel negative, even if her patients did not share the notion. Kapur was widowed, but still reminisced of the times she had with her late husband, Dev.

A Trick of Light
Kapur was hired by Raquelle Ackerson to help her son Cameron recover from a lightning strike during a disastrous boating incident. Kapur met Cameron on weekly video chats, not realizing that she was targeted by an alien named Xal for access to Cameron. One night at her home, as she was taking out the trash, Kapur was confronted by Xal disguised as a cadaverous young woman. Before Kapur could surmise the woman's profile, the stranger's forehead suddenly split and revealed Xal's monstrous form. Xal embraced Kapur with her tentacles, force-feeding corrosive bile into Kapur's mouth and killed her, then merged herself with Kapur's corpse. After assuming her victim's identity, Xal followed Cameron in Kapur's skin, simultaneously merging with more animals to enhance Kapur's body for combat purpose.

Little remained of Kapur's corpse as time went on, the only vestiges of Kapur were decaying skin that clung onto Xal when the latter ascended to a hive queen, subsequently flaking away upon Xal's death.