When I wake up, Angel is curled up into a tight ball, and from what I can tell, she's shivering. I can tell that she's having some sort of nightmare even though it's hard to see in this room with almost no light. I'm sorely tempted to wake her up, but I stop myself, seeing as that would probably only make things worse. So I let her sleep, wondering if someone is going to come wake us up or if we're supposed to get up on our own. Since I don't know, I just lie there, and stare at what little light is coming in through our doorway. I continue to watch for anybody to come open the door and tell us to get up. However, after a while of waiting, no one has come yet. Which makes me wonder if anybody is going to come get us, or if they forgot we were here. Are humans really so forgetful? I have no idea.

Suddenly a head pops in, and my eyes have to refocus so I can't see their face.

"You two up?" It's Jared.

"I am." I say. I look at Angel. "She isn't yet though."

"Do you think you could wake her up?" He sounds unsure.

"I don't know." I'm hesitant.

"Why not?"

I don't answer him, as I crawl over to Angel. I put my hand on her shoulder and shake her gently, hoping that she doesn't freak out when she wakes up. She slowly turns her head and blinks sleepily at me.

"What?" She asks me with a yawn.

"It's time to get up." I say gently.

"Can't I just sleep all day?"

I snort. "Not here, no."

She groans and sits up, rubbing her eyes. "I really hate not getting enough sleep."

"Don't be a baby." I say to her, rolling my eyes.

I notice her hair is a wild mess and I have to repress laughter. She seems to realize her hair is messy; she's attempting to flatten it down with just her hands and the attempt is failing. I lick my hands and attempt to flatten my hair, which seems to work for me, not for Angel. I snort at her. She just shoots me an annoyed look and I just shrug. It's not my fault that we have to be up; we just have to.

I look back at Jared. "Can't we just stay in here?"

My hopes are dashed by his answer. "Nope."

"Why not?" Angel asks him.

He sighs. "You'll never get used to being in this place if you just hide in here all day."

"Get…used…to?" Angel is so horribly confused.

"It's not like we can put you back where you came from." He says with a serious expression on his face. "So, you'll come work. Don't worry about it, we're having you work with Wanda and Melanie."

"Work?" There's disbelief in Angel's tone.

Jared snorts. "Yeah, you actually have to work."

I nearly laugh at the look on Angel's face. She looks almost insulted, as if working would be too much to ask. If anything, us working makes us less of a burden. So the fact that she's thinking this a punishment makes me want to fall over and laugh my head off.

Angel looks at me. "We really have to work."

I pat her. "Don't worry-it won't kill you."

She scowls at me. "Don't be mean."

I shrug and stand up. "I'm just speaking the truth."

She glares at me and gets to her feet. "Just shut up."

I shrug and walk out of the room. I don't look back to see if she follows, but Jared waits for her.

"You have to come to." He says to her. "If you don't come out I'll just drag you." He keeps his tone carefully controlled, so as not to scare Angel.

There's no answer from the room but she does come out, slowly, and she gives Jared a glare, but it's weak and easy to see through so he doesn't seem fazed by it at all and he walks ahead of us without a word, and I follow. I check over my shoulder to see if Angel is following, and she is trailing behind, sullen with her arms crossed. She is really upset about the current situation, it's easy to say. I gesture at her to join me, but she scowls at me and shakes her head, and continues sulking. I shrug and turn back, noticing that Jared is quickly getting out of sight. I jogged to keep up, relieved to hear Angel picking up the pace behind me.

Jared casts a glance back at us as he's walking, realizes he's walking too fast and waits for us to get caught up. By then I'm out of breath, panting. He sighs and continues walking, his shoulders stiff set all of a sudden. As we walk through the main hall, both Angel and I duck our heads until we are through another corridor, I let out a breath, not realizing I had been holding my breath. Jared seems to relax as well, as if he hadn't wanted to take us through there. After a while, we come upon another bigger cave thing and I realize that this is the area they make bread. I can spot Wanderer and the girl that must be Melanie kneading bread. I nearly sigh in relief that it's just them. I actually hear Angel sigh.

Jared snorts, rather loudly, and the two girls look up from kneading and, for some strange reason, I look down and away. I am feeling embarrassed, although I'm not entirely sure why. I remain totally silent.

"Why isn't anyone else here?" Jared asks.

A younger sounding voice answers. "They knew these two were coming so they figured four would be enough."

"I could help if you want." Jared offers.

"No, we'll do alright." The other voice says.

I look up, and notice Wanderer is staring right at me. I don't drop my eyes this time, but I have the urge to, which is difficult to resist. I must seem unsure to do, because Jared suddenly nudges me forward, and I take a few hesitant steps forward, then I stop.

"Hello." I manage to say.

"Hello." Wanderer says with a warm smile.

"You're the one who's known as Wanderer right? I've heard about you before." I say quietly.

"I go by Wanda, and I'm not really surprised." She replies, although she casts a strange glance at Melanie then looks back at me.

"What are we supposed to be doing?" I'm still speaking pretty quietly.

Wanda looks at her arms, her arms are literally up to her elbows in dough. "If you come to the other side of me, where there's that dough, I can tell you. I can't really show you."

I silently move to the other side of her, and watch her work the dough with her arms, which I didn't understand how she could with her arms buried in it like it is. She notices me watching and smiles and tilts her head at the dough in front of me. I hesitently stick my hands in the cool, sticky stuff, but I begin kneading, watching her movements, despite being in such thick dough. I have the hang of it soon enough, and when Angel joins as Jared leaves, she catches on pretty quickly as well. We knead in silence for a while, it's not awkward at least.

Wanda eventually speaks up. "Are you being treated okay?"

I keep my eyes fixed on the dough. "Yes."

"Jared's gotten softer." Melanie pipes in with a laugh.

"I would definitely agree with that." Wanda laughs.

I am confused but I don't ask for either one of them to elaborate. I don't want to know how he treated souls in the past. Angel is dead silent, her neck stiff with tension, her eyes fixed on the dough. I let my gaze wander back to the dough.

"You alright being here?" Wanda asks.

I shrug. "Sure."

Angel seems to about stop working, but then keeps going, almost at a frantic pace. That question set her off, as if she wants to bolt out of the room, right now. I can't reach out to comfort her; my hands are totally buried in the dough. I can feel tension radiating from her in thick waves now though.

Wanda seems to notice that, and changes the subject. "I've been thinking…I may have known you from somewhere."

I shrug. "I don't know. Where do you think we have met?"

"I can't place my finger on it. Were you ever a Spider?"

"No, I avoided going there. I heard terrible things about it."

"Huh. How about a Bat."

Warmth suddenly floods through me. "I loved it there. I nearly settled. That was my second life though, and then I heard about the Seeweed one and tried it.."

"I think I knew you on Song World then."

We begin chatting away about that planet. The minute she names a certain melody that she liked from it, I tell her it's one I composed and I feel like in a way that this allows us to bond. It's a little hard for me to swallow that I was on Song World the same time Wanderer was. Angel is still letting tension off, but a little less so, and I can hear her beginning to talk to Melanie a little bit while Wanda and I talk about Song World some more.

Jared comes back after a while to check on us. Wanda and I are still chattering noisily until he comes in and I suddenly stop speaking.

"No need to go silent on my account." He says to me. Angel and Melanie are still talking.

Wanda looks at Jared. "Moonbeam and I knew each other before earth."

Jared raises and eyebrow and looks at me. "Really?"

I nod. "Song World."

Jared looks a little surprised. "I never thought that would happen."

Wanda shrugs. "A strange universe this is."

"Agreed." I say.

"Well, there's some treats over in the dining hall if you want some."

We are cleaning our arms now and prepping the bread for baking. I don't want to leave this room. But food sounds good right now.

"What is it?" Melanie asks.

"Chocolate bars and energy drinks. There was a lot from the last raid."

"That sounds nice. We need to stay here and take care of the bread, could you bring us some?" Wanda asks.

Jared nods and leaves back down the corridor he came from. I am relieved. I'm not comfortable eating in the dining hall and either Wanda knows that, or the bread really is a priority and this just happens to be excellent timing. I have no clue.

Wanda looks at me. "You don't want to go out there do you? I know that feeling really well."

I shrug. "I'm not comfortable yet."

Wanda nods. "I get that."

I focus on the bread again, although there's really no point since we're not kneading it anymore. I just want somewhere to put my eyes, so I put them on the baking bread. Although it's really hard to watch since they aren't doing anything at the moment. Regardless of that, I keep my eyes on the baking bread, while I can hear Melanie and Angel speaking. I never thought that those two would get along so well, considering how Angel is. I guess she could warm up easily, it just takes some coaxing to get her out of her shell.

I feel awkward talking to humans, so I've been trying to avoid it. I do talk to Wanda because she's one of us, even though she's nearly as human as everyone else. But she's the one I feel closest to right now, since she is a soul. Being stuck here though makes me realize that I've been forced to settle on earth and even though I haven't lived many lives…this is where I will die. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that yet.

I can still feel Wanda's eyes on my face so I look at her.

"Are you sure you're okay being here?" She asks, her brow creased with worry.

I shrug. "I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually."

Before she can say anything, there's a lot of noise and Jared comes in with our treats, but he looks a little agitated as he brings us our treats. I break into the chocolate bar immedietly, enjoying the taste.

"What's wrong Jared?" Melanie asks.

"They brought in another soul. Male this time. They think he might know how to save humans that are even unresistant."

My heart seemed to stop.