WITHIN THE BABY

A few moments earlier.

Meanwhile, within the baby's body, before the two souls began the merging process, Ren Qian smartly asked the dark soul of the baby,

"How do you plan to repay me for giving you my soul essence? After all, I'm not obliged to help this body in any way."

"You will get your repayment after giving me the soul essence", the baby soul said.

Ren Qian was quiet for some time before he said, "Wait. I want to ask you a question, can you give me an answer?"

"If I have the answer to it", the baby soul said.

Ren Qian nodded and asked his question.

"What exactly are you and how exactly are we going to merge our souls? Do you have to dissipate my soul for this? What exactly do you plan to achieve?."

Truth to be told, Ren Qian was now thinking twice about this soul merge. What if it made him disappear forever?

He didn't even know who the heck he was, how could he 'die' so quickly?

Screw that, he didn't even know why he had become a soul, why and how he had gotten here and why he didn't remember anything.

He knew nothing at all and it made him antsy.

"Did you not say one question?", the baby soul said, amusement could be heard in his voice.

Ren Qian did not speak, avoiding his question.

The baby soul chuckled loudly, thinking to himself, 'This kid is interesting'.

"Hmm, you have an powerful soul and I do not know how you got here but you make me feel incredibly thirsty for you, for the power you hold. As for who I am, I am that bright little boy's dark side. As vampires, their souls are in two parts; light and dark. The side they lean towards more naturally becomes more powerful.", the eerie-looking baby said, floating around idly in the dark place.

He had tactfully avoided some questions Ren Qian asked.

"You seem to possess a conscience of your own.", Ren Qian said, hoping to know more, posing his statement as neither a question nor a statement.

"Yes", the baby said, not willing to explain further.

It was quite a spectacle seeing a baby robed in darkness talking to him 'normally'.

It couldn't be considered talking. His mouth was not moving, he was speaking through his mind.

'How was he able to do such a thing?', he thought.

"Souls communicate in this way, you idiot. I wonder how you are a soul when you are so ignorant.", the soul said dismissively.

"I'm not a soul. I happen to be sent here by some means and my memories seem to have been wiped.", Ren Qian said with uncertainty.