Ryker
"Where are they?" Elix asks eagerly as I walk closer to him.
He isn't here for small talk, and I am not either. I just want to get this over with and focus on what matters.
"Here," I raise my hands until they are pressed together and the ball of light that I have been collecting shoots out of them. I feel the energy as it leaves me, and it scares me even more, thinking that I am giving this immortal being more power than I should.
His eyes are open wide from hunger as the cries of the souls erupt and travel into my ears. These people have been trapped and kept for my own selfishness. In another life, I would have felt guilty, but all I can think about is Harley.
She has possessed my whole being and I can't even think about the wrong I am doing to protect her. Damn all the consequences of my decisions.
He reaches for the light, and I don't fight him. I let him seep energy that doesn't belong to him because we made a deal.