"What is it, my friend?" Melphie's hand tightened around the Shadow Chimera's paw, her emotions otherwise invisible on her skeletal face.
"Let me…show you." He gasped, each breath a struggle. He closed his eyes and his chest shimmered before a black soul light opened, revealing the shredded tangle of soul lights that lay hidden in his chest, and tangled within the remnants of his soul, a shining blue fragment of divinity.
"You have it!" Melphie's eye flames flashed violet. "What…" She found herself speechless. "If you held this, why did you not contend for the throne? Why did you support me?"
