A/N: This chapter is dedicated to balecka92. All yal should thank balecka because it's her review that reminded me to get my lazy self moving and updating! I'm truly sorry to anyone who was put out by this long space in between chapters, so… as a compromise, if I can get five new reviews I'll update the moment I see the fifth, even if Sinner is still on the first page on the stories list (I like to wait until it is at least on page two, don't ask me why. Anyhow, to anyone reading this dumb Author's note still, I bid fair well, enjoy the chapter.
CHAPTER SEVEN:
I am so confused. What is happening to me? I never had this much trouble with my memory before! Do I have a disease of some sort that causes me to forget? What am I doing in those time periods? I am so frightened by this. What if I am doing sinful things that I am never asking for forgiveness for because I cannot remember doing them? Oh, I feel so horrible, too. My head never ceases to ache and I am tired all the time, cat-napping too. Maybe that's all I'm doing in those periods of time, but usually I remember a dream at least! What is happening to me?!
A Soul Chamber? Meg said that everyone had one. When she was in her Soul Chamber it looked like meditation. Nico was sure they were almost, if not exactly, the same thing. And now, sitting against his bed, he was going to find out. Easily he slipped into meditation, and looked around.
In front of him burned his sparkling black power, changing shape as quickly as his emotions, a powerful oak rustled in a nonexistent wind, bending to turn into a fiery blaze, then dividing to form a huge black bird that split into hundreds of smaller ones flying in a V- shaped flock. But, there! In the center of all this change was a single, unchanging, sphere.
Nico's spirit moved forward, for it wasn't a walk 'nor a glide, through the magic that was once again a tree, and on to the center. With the slightest hesitation he thrust his "hand" into he sphere, and the background changed.
Where was he? Nico didn't know. Somewhere inside the sphere, but NOT in the Soul Chamber. All around him pranced shadows of his worst nightmares, and he had a sneaking feeling that to release one was to be trapped in one. They were bombs waiting to explode! Dodging their moving forms Nico became thin as a needle, darted to the wall, and kept going right on through.
Another room awaited him on the other side. How big was this place? The room was a huge, magnificent, library with bookcases reaching up to the ceiling of glass that was letting in spirals of golden sunlight that filtered through the dusty air.
In the center sat a desk, on top it was an open book. It was open to a warning written in bold red paint. Moving around to the other side as to see it right-side up, Nico read to himself. "TO MISPLACE ANYTHING IS TO LOOSE IT!" Realization dawned on him and with a different set of eyes he looked at his library. In it was stored ever piece of knowledge he had ever known or heard. Talk about a place to come to 'collect your thoughts'!
But this wasn't his Soul Chamber. Nico was approaching another wall when suddenly something yanked him back. Nico was blinking his eyes, staring into Briars face. "What?" he snapped, a bit more upset than he should've been. Briar seemed unfazed.
"You need to eat. You missed dinner last night, and breakfast and lunch today. Rosethorn promises to whack some sense into you if you don't come eat now, and there'll be no leftovers, it's my favorite!" Then Briar scampered away.
From the staircase Nico saw Meg listening. "Hello, Meg," Nico called out, looking politely away.
"Hello, Sir."
"Um, after dinner - you will be joining us, wont you?"
"Yes sir,"
"Good, good," Nico muttered distractedly. "After dinner could I talk to you again about the Soul Chamber? I am quite interested in finding my own." Excited about being able to help one of the sinners purify himself, Meg agreed quickly. Then followed him down to dinner.
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