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shouldn’t be
difficult for her to choose the side of good.”
    Loren
cleared his throat before speaking. “Therein lies the problem, my young friend.
She cannot make the choice. Her soul is missing.”
    Chris jumped
to his feet. “What?”
    “Sit down,
Christopher.” Loren waited until Chris had complied before continuing. “That is
the reason I brought you here. We must discover what happened to her soul.”
    “But how? I
never heard of a person losing their soul.”
    “It happens,
though it is rare, especially in one so young. generally t a very traumatic experience
is required. We were wondering if you knew of any possible events, perhaps one
that she has blocked from her memory.”
    Chris’ mind
went immediately to the events inside Gregory’s prison. Surely his actions
couldn’t have cost Kelly her soul; after all, she had been unconscious the
entire time. “Isn’t there another way she could have lost her soul?”
    Loren was
silent for a moment before answering. “The only other way I know of removing a
soul requires very, very strong magic. the combined powers of all the members
of the board would be required to accomplish it, and we would never do such a
horrendous  thing.”
    Dominic
leaned forward, speaking for the first time in a heavily accented voice. “I
noticed that you did not deny that there was no traumatic experience.”
    Chris looked
from Dominic to Loren before dropping his eyes.
    Loren leaned
forward and placed his hand on Chris’ hand. “If you know something, you must
tell us. It is the only way that we can help Kelly.”
    Chris
remained silent for quite some time, refusing to look up least he meet the
wizard’s eyes. When he eventually spoke, his voice was so low that both Loren
and Dominic had to lean even closer so they could hear him. “What I’m about to
say won’t leave this room, right?”
    Loren took
the time to search Chris’ face with his eyes before answering. “I cannot
promise that. We may bee required to pass the information on to the council.”
    Chris looked
up but quickly discovered that he couldn’t meet the wizard’s eyes. “But, you
wanted me to promise not to discuss what we talked about. Now you refuse to
offer me the same courtesy.”
    “there is a
reason for my refusal; we may require the combined magical abilities of all the
wizards and in order to gain that the problem would need to be discussed. for
your promise; it is necessary that you not speak in front of the servants. They
gossip too freely and as few people who know about this , the better it will
be. As long as Kelly’s soul is missing she is in grave danger.”
    This brought
Chris’ head up with a snap. He met the wizard’s eyes squarely. “What kind of
danger?”
    “There are
many forces who would love to get their hands on someone with Kelly’s power.
People like Gregory are minor compared to some of them. Should any of them
discover how vulnerable she is, well, even the combined power of the council
might not be enough to protect her.”
    “Could it be
possible for her to have experience something without her conscious knowledge?”
    Loren gave
him a searching look before answering. “That depends on the event.”
    Chris dropped
his eyes as he realized that he would have to tell Loren about his despicable
actions. He sighed before relating the events that occurred in Gregory’s castle
as tersely as possible. When he finished there was a long silence in the room.
    Suddenly
Dominic began speaking rapidly in a language Chris couldn’t understand, but
from his tone, Chris was certain that the other was cursing.
    “Now, now,
Dominic,” said Loren in a soft voice. “It does not good to say such things.
Also, you must speak English for our guest’s benefit. He does not have the
luxury of speaking several tongues as we do.”
    Dominic
switched to his heavily accented English. “I cannot believe that he actually
used a lust spell to achieve his aims. I thought that that particular