Those green eyes charm me. I will do anything and everything to please her. I will destroy anyone who gets in my way. The blade will kill you and you won't even feel the pain. The pain will only be a sudden pinch. The air will escape your lungs and then you will drop dead. Then your soul will be mine. The blade goes through my father's chest and I watch him die but I can't move to hold him close. I can't catch home before he hits the ground. A beam of blue comes out of his body. His soul is leaving his body and I can't say I can't fight to hold on to him. He is dead. My father was murdered by my hand. What have I done? I took his life without even trying to stop myself. I turn and her face is inches from me. "Nubia wake up baby. It's just a dream. Come back to me. You are safe." Damian is holding me and I wake up screaming. It's like there is no air in this room. He slowly lets me go and walks away from me. Why am I glowing Green? "Hey butterfly you feeling okay?" My dad says and the green vanishes at the sight of him. I leap out of the bed and jump into his arms. "Dad I am so sorry. I love you so much. Please don't die on me. Please don't let me kill you." I'm sobbing in his shoulder and my arms are wrapped so tight they begin to shake. "Nubia, I am alive. You didn't hurt me. It was just a dream. Don't worry." He says whipping my tears away and loosening my death grip. "We need to get back to the palace I think sooner than later," Damian says but he sounds concerned. He won't look at us and he starts tapping on his phone and grabs my bag.

We are back on the road and Damian wouldn't even let us stop for food. His phone has gone off 15 times since we have been on the road and he won't answer me about who they are. The road starts to get smaller and we are a two-lane road. The clock in the car has to be broken because it stays on at the same time I swear for five minutes. Damian finally speaks only to tell us we have two hours to go then we will be able to eat. He better be serious cause we haven't eaten anything since yesterday night and I'm ready to bite him just so he pulls over. My dad crashed out in the back seat of the car snoring. He gave up trying to talk to Damian who won't say more than three or two words to him. The tension in the car is killing me and I am about to tell him something when I see in the distance a person. They keep coming closer to the car. But we are driving at 50 miles per hour how are they doing that? Then I make out those fucking Green eyes again. My body goes on alert and starts to glow blue and slowly I start to turn green. "Nubia! I need you to calm down. You're not seeing whatever is happening you have to trust that you are in the car with me." The wheels of the car are lifting off the road and I can feel Damian squeezing my hand. There is a pinch to the side of my neck and I instantly feel like I have just smoked weed. I look at Damian and his face is so scared but I am so high I can't help but laugh at how scared he is. The laughing won't stop then I turn to a hot mess of tears. My tears keep coming till my eyes feel heavy and I feel myself slipping away into sleep.

"What the fuck was that Nova and what if it almost killed her? What were you thinking?" My mother's voice is booming in my ears. Now that I am trying to wake up my head feels like I have been drinking all night and I'm hunger over as fuck. The air feels muggy like I can't breathe and when I try to cover my mouth from coughing I feel the cuffs around my wrist. I try to move my feet and there are cuffs around my ankles. What the fuck is going on and why am I cuffed to the idk what I am on so I lose my hands to feel concrete under me. "Why is everything black?" I ask out loud. "We can't let you see where we are and we can't let you look into our eyes yet?" My mother says. "Why can't you let me see anything? What's wrong? What did I do?" My body tries to get free. What if I tried to kill my father and Damian in the car? "Oh my god did I hurt someone? Did I try to kill you guys? What's wrong with me?" I am sobbing now because I feel like I am a terrible person. What have I done to be cuffed up? "Everyone is fine sweetheart heart. We just need to figure something out okay? Until then we need you to stay here." My mother says and then there is some rustling of I think bushes maybe rocks. A breeze comes across my face and I can smell something sweet like fresh blooming flowers and I think I can hear a stream. Okay, I am not at the pyramid base they have me located somewhere else but why? "Nubia, why are you stuck to a rock?" Atlas reaches through and I start to cry. "Because I have done some
Things terrible and they need to make sure everyone is safe." I tell him back. His voice
Has deepened since the last time we talked and he also sounds grown. Like he is reaching adulthood. He keeps me company asking what it feels like when the souls enter my body and how powerful Nell is. He was also shocked to find out that she was even alive. He tells me that the colors of his body have changed to more black and his oranges look more like rusty oranges. Which I laugh at because I have never heard of oranges being rusty.

Hours pass by when finally there is movement coming close to me. "Nubia how close did Nell get to you," Damian asked in a direct tone. He doesn't sound like himself and I'm afraid that it's not him or maybe I am just being paranoid. "We sat right next to each other at dinner," I say. "Was that it she just sat next to you?" My mother asks in the same tone as Damian. "No she kissed me but I was able to block her out. I'm sure I did. Well, I tried to block her out so she couldn't taste what I was Yessica taught me how to black her out. But she did.. she did taste something because she demanded Yessica we do things when she gets back and there would be no hesitation." As I'm recalling what they are figuring out. They are whispering and I'm ready to yell at them. When Damian finally speaks. "You need to block her out from your soul dust. She is using it to make you feel like you are trapped by her. We don't know if she can see what or where you are going but she can make it manipulate you into thinking you are seeing her. She can even leak into your dreams and make you see what she wants. She wants you to crawl back to her. We need to figure out how to get her away from your soul dust." Damian says. "Why don't you kiss her Damian? Maybe you need to heal whatever she may have done." Clarissa says and I am shocked she sounds fine with me kissing him. His smell in golf me and he kisses me. My soul dust fights to come out. It feels blocked and he stops. "Nubia let me love you. Let me in baby. Let me show you how magical our souls can be." He whispered in my ear and my soul yearned for his. When I feel his lips brush against him lift my head so I can feel him. The soul dust starts to pour from my mouth as it does from his. It's like I am eating the sweetest watermelon. Deep down I feel the rumble like a tiny earthquake inside my soul. A smack of relief hits me. Every crack I. My soul and all the things I thought I was slowly healing. I am watching my chakras start to light up and my mind finally connects fully back with my soul. Damian is Saving me slowly and letting me see how much he is willing to heal every broken part of me because I am worthy of his love.