Chapter 12: An Aside

That energy! Incredible! And after all this time… We'd thought it was too good to be true all those weeks ago when we first felt it through the connection with the boy. But now, we have done it! Together, we set out to accomplish what we could not do alone and now we see the fruition of our combined power.

The link has taken several months to test and establish; we could not know if we had succeeded until we tried to take her over. This ended in failure and a terrible drain on our energy many times. My counterpart insisted we give this up and attend to more promising leads. But I assured him, in the farthest corner of our mind, this would be worth it. He still thinks that I'm obsessed with the girl and perhaps that is true, but, as before, she is the key to everything. I told him to be patient and I would show him an incredible weakness in the enemy's armor... We had only to wait.

And now, we have done it; we've secured our place in her and we have found our opening into others she's spiritually connected to. My counterpart trusts me now than ever; my judgment will sway his words far more than any of his counselors, so I know that I will get what I want.

And I want that girl.