mind. I hear her heart beat speed up and her breath become labored. A deep low voice begins repeating words of caution . “He is not safe. Why should he be trusted? He has been keeping his true self from you. A liar that is what he is. How do you even know if he really lets down the walls? You don’t even know how he puts them up? If he loves you why would he have any kind of barrier between you? Gavin knows things he is not telling you. Does he know about your father, your mother, the fire? If he were the one meant to fill the emptiness inside, why would he not tell you until you had the power to force him? Gavin is more like a kidnapper than a friend. He makes all the rules and controls where you live. His parents are probably in on the whole thing. It is just too convenient that they were there to take you in after someone put a bullet in your father’s head. He knows everyone you know and a whole lot of other people you don’t. You know you were the one who shattered that mirror. All you had to do was think it and it happened. You are powerful and you don’t need him to protect you. He wants what you have. He doesn’t really want you.” I remain silent, trying not to think anything though the rage inside me is threatening to burst forth. Zoe struggled with the information being forced into her mind. “You don’t know Gavin. I have seen inside his mind, his heart, his soul! You don’t even exist! I know that forces exist that want to keep me from him. I feel them all around me. You were the one who put me in the closet! I know you were the one who sliced open my wrists. If Gavin really wanted to control me he would have let them admit me to the kind of psych ward I wouldn’t come out of. However, he did not! There may be things he has not yet told me, but before now I would not have believed him. Do you think he is ignorant of your existence? When he finds you he will make you wish you never were. As for my father, he has no blood on his hands and neither do his parents. I would know. I have always had a good sense of such things. I am more than you know I am and more than you can conceive. Gavin does not want my power. He loves me; any fool with half a soul can feel its other half even if they were brain dead. You will see. Until he gives me a reason not to trust him I will. I may not know everything, but I can tell an evil soul with I hear one!” She spits out at the darkness. Zoe knows I am here, but wants me to witness for myself the darkness that plagues her. She is also telling me that despite everything that could raise doubts she believes me and trusts me. I hope it lasts when I expose her to others. Just as the presence appeared it disappears. Zoe does not wake once it leaves. I guess that means she is still within her subconscious. I remove my hand and move to the chair in the corner. It is strange to be inside the mind of another. Very little knowledge exists about such a connection legends and rumors exist among our kind about such possibilities only when a very powerful soul is born into two of our kind. It really is frustrating not knowing who her mother is. Yet, no one knows who my parents are either so, that probably makes this whole thing even messier. Someone out there knows more than both of us and if we don’t get some answers fast life is going to spiral into true chaos. If only this journal wasn’t just full of what I know. We need to figure out where the guardian library is, I know it exists, but where? I know of one solution that would give us so many answers, yet without some of the questions we currently don’t have answered the outcome could create more chaos. From what is known about individuals like Zoe and I, to fully understand our purpose and future fully binding to one another is necessary. To fully become one we need to sleep together. From an emotional stand point well, from a human stand point all of that seems “mushy” and maybe even improper. We don’t marry in