Sunny had seen souls that were radiant and full of light, and he had seen souls that were being consumed by a spreading corruption.
However, he had never seen a soul like Jet's.
It was lightless and shrouded in darkness, almost like his own. A single powerful core burned in its depths, superposed against her heart… the core itself was strange, bizarre, and filled him with an eerie sense of profound unease.
The ethereal orb was irregularly shaped and much larger than it was supposed to be, grossly overshadowing the size of other Ascended cores he had witnessed. Its surface was covered by a net of deep, twisting cracks… no, not quite. It was more like the whole core was assembled from numerous shards, as if it had been shattered once and then crudely assembled back into an uneven sphere.
