Tessa

"Who's there" he almost yelled it out but realized the voice had resounded in his mind. So he returned in kind asking through his head.

He tiptoed back out of the kids room and headed upstairs where his room and office was.

The voice took its time replying almost as if waiting for him to be ready to converse. He sat down in his office chair as he reached his room. "My name is Tessa." The voice echoed again moments after he sat down. "I am Damien's sister."

"Sister?"

"Yes, you would've most likely adopted me as well, however Damien absorbed my soul after killing me in utero. So now I speak through a soul tether which you should know well about." Tessa seemed very well versed for someone who should have been as new to the world as Damien.

"How do you know so much, you're brand new to everything." Tepmin appalled.

"After death when the soul survives the World Soul sears life knowledge into each soul. That way if a person ever learns to communicate directly to the soul rather than through the soul, they can gain as much knowledge as they can retain." Tessa continued. "I am also a non tethered soul so I can move outside of Damiens body, I can't go far and I only have limited time before I fade away, but it can help me direct knowledge to him as well."

"Does this mean that I can ask knowledge of you as well? Also how aware is Damien, I know he's still a newborn so there can't be much understanding in him."

"On the contrary, give it a couple days and Damien will be able to speak just like any well versed scholar. He is extremely intelligent, but he needs to keep a pin in it. Even now there are movements in the works to find Damien. He needs to keep his head down outside of your home. Possibly inside your home as well."

"How is any of this even possible. Nobody should be able to activate their soul before the age of five. It doesn't make any sense." Tepmin's face creased in worry.

"There's a few reasons. Also Damien is not the only one that emerged this way in recent years. Our father experimented on humans to find a way to make the soul stronger and to try and steal others souls while they were still living. Our mother loved him however she was having an affair with another man. Not to mention she was just as sick and twisted as our father. She willingly subjected her womb to experiments. Which led to both of our Awakening at around four months of pregnancy."

"Didnt that cause issues at all though? Humans are meant to adapt to their souls through time not have the power to use them at birth."

"I mean you have me to attest for. I am no longer living, and he absorbed my soul, luckily I am capable of doing things, but most souls when integrated become a part of the original soul. He can slot souls into his own making the other souls have their original personality. This might cause a strain in his mental later on in life. Also he didn't just absorb my soul. He absorbed our mother's soul. Right now it is locked up and buried though. I have no idea what did this to her soul, it might be an expansion of his own power or a force from outside his own knowledge. Or he could have subconsciously locked her down. Only time will tell."

"This is troublesome. A newborn with three souls, which for most people means two integrations. In almost every case this would cause a strain to the soul and it would fracture it causing the death of the body and soul, or turn the person into a vegetable. Then someone else can poach every soul in possession of that person. Will he really be okay?"

"For now he will, I can handle shaping souls to help him handle the strain, he will be fine unless the amount of souls goes past the barrier which I can support. Time will tell if he ever reaches this point."

"It was Tessa right?"

"Correct."

"Stay in touch, I'm probably going to need your help to raise him up safely."