I don't know why he wants help. I can't help him escape if that's what he's asking me for. So I slightly shake my head at him and turn around so my back is to him. I never thought of turning my back on my own kind, but this is a situation where I can't do anything to help.

Jared frowns. "Does he really want to turn everyone in?"

I shrug. "I think so. But I don't see why he should. It's not like you're going to murder my entire race."

Jared huffs. "If they'd understand that, we could actually live in harmony with your kind."

"Yeah, but that will never happen." Angel says bitterly. "As you can tell by how I reacted and how he's reacting."

"Someday maybe." Melanie says.

"Someday, but not in the near future." I sigh. "That's how it is."

"What I don't get is why they didn't give us a chance." Ian says. "They didn't need to take all of us out."

"It's because of your destructive nature. Or at least most of your kind anyway. They didn't see the point in letting some of you live." Angel says with a sigh.

"Yet, your species calls us cruel?" Jared raises an eyebrow. "Do you really think your kind has the right to decide if another species gets to live, or if you take us all out?"

"We didn't have the right." I say. "But I can't control what goes on. I'm not the one who decided to start living on hosts on other planets other than the Origin."

"So everyone just sticks to the status quo? There isn't any spark for a rebellion." Jared shoots.

"No, because that's not in our nature. We are very peaceful at our core." I am trying to not lose my temper with him; I know he's not trying to make me upset.

Jared finally nods in agreement. "That makes sense." He still looks frustrated, but I just deliberately ignore that. There's no point in getting annoyed with him when all he knows is what he knows from either experience or just from what people have told him. So I can't get frustrated so easily.

I suddenly hear a thump and I turn around. Lance is on the ground, unconscious. What the heck happened? Then I see Jeb's hand is clenched into a fist and Wanda isn't saying anything, but she looks relieved. I try to keep the horror off my face, but I'm not sure if I'm successful in doing so. So I quickly turn my face away, so Wanda can't see that I'm horrified that they knocked Lance out so easily.

Jared looks confused by my expression but I don't say anything, I'm too horrified to. I just lean against the counter and stare into space, despite feeling people's eyes on my face. Then I hear Angel gasp and I know she's seen Lance lying on the ground unconscious. I turn to look at her and she's got a disgusted look on her face and she looks away, her teeth clenched. I can easily see she's fighting the urge to say something to Jeb, for being so heartless and cruel to Lance. But I can at least understand why they most likely decided knocking him out was best at this point. He's a threat to this entire colony…and the last thing I want is for these humans to get taken and have souls put in them because Lance turned them all in.

Angel shudders once, absolutely repulsed, but says nothing. For that I'm glad, because that could cause issues between everyone here if she starts a disagreement. And that's the last thing that we really need. I cast a glance towards Jeb and see that he's carrying Lance out of the room. I relax; although I never realized that I had been tense in the first place. Wanda comes and joins us after a few minutes. She just sighs and rolls her neck, a loud crack echoes through the room.

"Jeb is going to keep him in his room, guarded, for now. Until we can either convince that soul to calm down, or we remove him from his body and get him shipped to another planet." Wanda says this pretty calmly.

"How would you send him off without getting caught?" I sound totally surprised.

"It's pretty easy; we've done it before." Jared says this like it's no big deal.

Ian looks tense and frustrated standing next to Wanda. It had taken me a moment to realize that he was there. I quickly turn my attention away from those two.

"How was it so easy?" I ask Jared. "That's supposed to be a hard facility to get into."

He shrugs. "Not really."

I look totally shocked; how is it as easy as he is making it sound? He's making it sound like it was a cake walk! I can only imagine the careful planning that has to go into it though, just so they don't get caught. Jared quirks a smile at my expression, he seems to find it funny. I, however, don't think that it's exactly funny. It's a dangerous thing to attempt to do!

The smile fades, replaced by confusion. "What?"

"You probably just got lucky. You could have gotten taken easily." I am barely speaking above a whisper.

"There was no danger of that happening. Not with her with us." He gestures at Wanda, still looking confused by my reaction.

I slowly just shake my head; even with her there, if they would've faced this issue I doubt she could have stopped them. They would have known they were humans, and we would have stolen that many more lives. I am tired of stealing lives so easily.

"Um…Moon…beam? Are you alright?" He asks, sounding like he doesn't know if he's asking correctly or something.

"I'm fine." I say as emotionlessly as I can manage. "It's just not a safe idea. I wouldn't recommend trying it again. The hospitals are really well watched. At least when I came here that's what I noticed."

"How watched?" Jared is frowning.

"Like, Seekers will respond pretty quickly if something is spotted amiss."

"It wasn't like that before we…did what we did." Jared sighs.

"They wouldn't have known about that." Wanda says suddenly. "We were really sneaky about it."

"They could have noticed something was wrong anyway, just not have done anything about it at the time." Jared runs a hand through his hair. "Oh geez, we really did get lucky."

I don't say anything to that. Where would I be now if they had gotten caught? The answer was pretty obvious to me; not here. I would be living a regular life, completely oblivious to this colony of humans still fighting the gain their world back, and I would be less likely to feel so guilty about taking lives so that I might live. Or that may have been the same. I am not completely sure of myself when it comes to that.

"So even if the soul doesn't calm down he doesn't have a choice." I sigh. "You guys won't be able to ship him off planet."

Jared's face clouds over. "We may end up having to kill him then."

"No!" Angel snaps at him. "That isn't an option either."

I look at her and raise an eyebrow. "But he could get out."

"There's no risk of that happening." Wanda says. "He was blindfolded when he was brought in."

I slump against the counter, tired of this. I'm beginning to think that we have no choice but to let him out and hope he dies in the desert. But Seekers are probably scanning the area so that's an even worse idea. I wrap my arms around myself and stare at the floor. I start thinking of a way to smooth this out so we don't have to try anything too risky. Then it hits me and I look right at Jared.

"Maybe I should talk to him." I say. I look over Jared's shoulder and my heart sinks; Jeb has already taken him out of the room.

"Do you really think that would work?" Angel sounds doubtful.

"I don't know. But I have to try. That's the only way to save him." I talk in a monotone.

"That would be the best way to handle things." Melanie speaks up. "I'll go find Jeb."

She leaves the room before any of us can say a word to her. Jared frowns but doesn't go after her, but it's easy to tell that he wants to.

"I don't think you'll be able to save him either way Moonbeam. There's not really any hope for him." Angel says frowning.

"I have to try," I snap at her. "I'm not going to put him to a death sentence because he won't change who he is."

Angel flinches at my defensive tone. "I don't think you'll be doing anyone a favor trying to save him."

I snort and shake my head at her. I don't understand why she is being the way she is; but I can't change her. Which might explain why she thinks I won't be able to change Lance. But something inside of me doesn't want to let him die; feels that it's totally wrong that we're just going to let him die if he can't be convinced and Jeb gets bored. I may be tired of us murdering so many humans, but that doesn't give us the right to kill him because he isn't being cooperative. Death is wrong to me, no matter what, unless it is an extreme circumstance. And even then I really don't know about it.

I finally just let out a giant huff of air. "Can't you understand that ending someone's life for them without a choice is wrong?"

Angel rolls her eyes. "In his case it really isn't."

I stare at her, shocked. "You do realize that makes you no better than the humans right?"

She flinches and doesn't answer and I just keep my gaze on her. I wait for an answer from her, knowing that's the worst insult possible to throw at her. But she avoids my gaze, hurt on her face, but I feel no guilt, I feel nothing. After all, she was agreeing to murder one of our own. Not exactly something she should be okay with.

She finally says. "I know. But we won't be safe with him here."

I stare at her. "You are freaking crazy. First you say murder is wrong, and then you're willing to turn a blind eye to it!"

She meets my gaze. "You know I'm right."

"No, you're completely wrong. And so is everyone else who believes murdering him is the right way to go."

I about bolt from the room when Jared grabs my arm. I scowl at him and try to jerk away, but he won't let go of me.

"I need to be alone right now. Let go of me!" I snap at him.

His grip only tightens. "I doubt Jeb's going to kill him. You should know that. Despite what he says, he doesn't go around killing people. That's not how he is."

I glower at him. "He still might kill him. I can't just sit here and let it happen."

"Mel's talking to him. Relax already!"

He finally lets go of my arm and I just walk out of the room.