A tight squeeze around my stomach lets me know that he never left my side. He didn't leave me in the middle of the night. "Nubia you need to get up. We need to finish this. You need more souls." I hear male and female talking but where are they coming from? Damian starts to adjust and his arm lets go of my waist. He moves to his back and I decide this is the best time to crawl out of bed. The voices start to talk. "Nubia you need to go back to calm the souls. It's the only way." I look in my mirror and remember this isn't a dream. There are souls attached to mine and I don't know what for or why but now they are telling me I need to kill more. That I need to go back. "Yes Nubia, she has the blade and the people that will serve you. They are going to die." As the voices stop a soul pops up in the bathroom and I scream and then look into his eyes. I can see his face. This is the soldier from the hall the one who bows to me and says he is with me. His hand reaches out and touches me as Damian runs into the bathroom and watches the soul become one with me.

Damian is pacing my room back and forth. He doesn't say anything for about five minutes and then he walks out of the room. I get up to follow him as we run into Clarissa and Ezikel in the hallway. Clarissa looks at Damian then me and her face goes from smiles to piss. I mean I am in just a t-shirt and Damian has sweats on and the t-shirt happens to be his, but we didn't do anything last night. Wzikel starts to follow us and Clarissa scoffs and trails us too. Damian found a black book amongst the books on the table where we would eat. They never gave up on trying to find where I was. I also see the heavy bags that are still noticeable under all of their eyes. Damian is flipping through the book furiously and then he finds the page and slams the book in front of me. "Soul collector by debt or by the army. Souls will attached to another soul when thy human or spirit entity is in need or favor of the souls to move on or support in war. Thy soul will help create a more powerful soul by using thy powers from other souls. Each soul will not be able to leave thy host till the soul has completed thy mission. Thy army shall be 100 souls collected by death or sacrifice to the soul collectors. Warning soul collectors shall be thy guardian of the universe and the universe guardian will die when souls are too released. If the soul collector doesn't die at the end of battle thy shall sacrifice themselves to release the spirit to its rightful home." I read this out loud and look up at Damian because once this is done and I beat Yessica I will have to die to help these souls be at rest. "I don't get it. Why did you read about the soul collector? There hasn't been one for centuries." Wzikel says with a confused tone. "There is one now and she doesn't even know what she was doing until now," Damian says in a pissed-off voice. "Nubia, you didn't," Clarissa says as places a hand on my shoulder to look at me in my eyes. "Holy shit you did." Clarissa let's go. After all, she can see the souls through my eyes because she is a reaper and she will need to be by my side when I die. This much I know is true. "How many souls have you collected?" Damian says and then there is a big slam at the back of the room. Our eyes all look at my mother who looks like she is about to kick someone's ass. More like I'm sure she is going to kick mine. "You did fucking what!" She is yelling and everyone backs away from me. "Mom, I didn't know that's what was going on. I swear." I pleaded with her and then she was across the room and in my face in a matter of seconds. She grabs me by my neck and I can fill the air slowly being removed from my lungs Damian goes to grab her when she slams me so hard Into the edge of the table that it breaks and you know what I just fucking can't. I feel my glow and it's hot and angry and oh man am I heated. My eyes open and I can see their souls and this time I'm not a fucking weakling I grab my mother by the neck and she releases mine with shock. I slam her so hard and now this table is completely fucked. "We are going to make sure she hurts. She has to go and this is the only way." The voice coming out of me is multiple and Then I feel Damian and Ezikel both touch my shoulders. And the other hand placed in the middle of my back. The small hand calms all the souls down. This is Feya in her natural ways helping a girl out when she is losing her shit on her mother. My grin releases and all the anger subsides Feyas hand slides down to my hands and she leans into me and makes our foreheads touch. "Oh, angry ones please don't take it out on her mother. We are here and we will get you to where you need to go but please try to remain calm or you will kill Nubia and everyone in your path if you don't. So let me help you. Let me relax you." After she is done all the souls are sleeping. I can finally see my soul who is curled up in the corner. She looks defeated and that's exactly how I feel. Tears start to escape my eyes but I don't want to open them. Because when I saw the souls of people I truly care and love for, I honestly wanted them and I don't ever want to feel that way again. Feya lets me keep my eyes closed as she leads me out of the room I hear shuffling as if people are going to follow us but Feya stops them and says, "I think you all have done enough. Give us some space."

"Nubia, this isn't your fault and you didn't expect this to happen. I know you are feeling everything all at once and I know a lot of the emotions aren't yours. My mother went through this before I had to sacrifice her and Clarissa had to collect all the souls before they ran a muck on my world. It's a terrible thing what you're going through but I have learned how you can control them. If you let me help you. We can also find a way to keep you alive when the souls have to be released I know there is one person who did. I just need you to lean in and trust me." As she finishes speaking I wait a few more moments and then I open my eyes slowly to make sure I don't see her soul. "Feya I trust you and I want your help. But I don't want to murder people anymore. I don't want to go back to that place but I know I'm going to have to. Because if I stay here I might kill people I love to collect their souls and I just... I don't know if I can do that." My voice is breaking and she puts her hands on my shoulders. "We'll darling let's make a plan and make sure to sell it. We also know that there are a few people in that room that aren't going to be on your side but I'll persuade them or make them fall asleep.