Kelly was in the penthouse sitting area with the Wymasirians, discussing Mischia’s kidnap.
‘But how did they just take her?’ Kelly asked worriedly.
‘She took her ring off and didn’t put it back on,’ Carissa answered.
‘Why are these rings so important?’
Carissa lifted the sleeve of her top and looked at the others, who did the same. They all had a symbol tattooed just above their wrists, of a cross inside a circle. Kelly looked at them as if that didn’t answer her question, so Warren did.
‘The symbol is also engraved on the ring, if you look closely.’
Kelly looked at the ring and, sure enough, there was the cross inside the circle, discreetly engraved on the stone.
‘So what does this all mean?’ She asked.
‘Protection,’ said Carissa ‘Ywoth is power-hungry and will stop at nothing, and since we can’t stop him, we hav-’
‘Wait-wait-wait,’ Kelly interrupted, putting up her hand ‘You can’t stop him?’
‘No.’
‘Why?’
‘Well, we can, but he has free will,’ said Carissa, sighing.
‘What’s free will got to do with it?’
‘It’s the law of the Universe.’ said Warren.
Kelly’s fear for Mischia got the better of her, and she started pacing ‘Oh my God. He’s going to kill Mischia. He’s gonna kill Mischia, he‘s gonna kill her!’ She shouted, hysterically.
‘Kelly, please calm down, sit. You need to help us here, you know Mischia the best,’ said Carissa.
Kelly started to cry and Warren held her.
The Wymasirians began to communicate telepathically.
‘She’s struggling to cope with this,’ said Warren.
‘We can’t leave her to be by herself, she wouldn’t survive,’ said Carissa.
‘We won’t. We need to enhance her abilities so that she can work with us,’ said Justine.
‘Will she want to though?’ Asked Warren, looking down at Kelly’s head.
‘We’ll have to do something. It’s too dangerous to have a liability. She has to be able to distinguish when Ywoth is around, or she’s as good as dead,’ added Trevor.
‘But what if she doesn’t want to?’ asked Warren.
‘Yeah, look at her,’ Trevor nodded at Kelly.
Justine sighed and said ‘Kelly?’
Kelly lifted her head off Warren’s shoulder and looked at Justine, but Carissa spoke.
‘He won’t kill her.’
‘H-how do you know?’ She asked, through tears.
‘Because that would be violating her will,’ said Carissa gently.
‘You’ve lost me,’ Kelly shook her head. ‘What does that mean?’
Justine spoke ‘We don’t kill people – none of us – including Ywoth. We only take over a body when the soul leaves it. That’s how we got these bodies. And the corpse that you found was already dead, the ritual being performed was to bring through a being from Wymasiriah.’
Kelly was silent for a long time. ‘But you said Ywoth wanted our bodies?’
‘I didn’t say he would kill you for them.’
‘So what does he want them for? And what will he do to Mischia?’ Kelly was getting hysterical.
‘Kelly calm down,’ said Carissa. ‘He won’t kill her.’
‘How-’
‘Just trust us on that.’