When Melanie was fourteen the world changed. Eyes started turning silver, people started turning on their families until they joined the rest.
It turned the world upside down, realising how many of their people had already been infiltrated. and how high up they'd gotten. Most world leaders and royal families were under the Souls' control at the time of them revealing themselves.
And Melanie saw it happen, watching from the safety of the darkness of the cabin that no one else knew about, protecting her brother.
And she knew that they would never give up, no matter what happened to them.