Noah chuckled as he saw the worried look on Xander's face. He could see the clam's lid slowly dropping as it prepared to clamp its jaws shut with the child still inside it.
Although the clam was within Xander's reach, he was sure the parasite wasn't going to make it that easy for him. To reach the child, he first needed to kill Noah. It was a simple equation: to save a soul, Xander had to destroy another. For as long as the parasite roamed freely in the Soulscape, the child could not be freed.
"So near, yet so far," Noah giggled. "I still don't understand why you want to save this miserable newborn. No one will even know when I replace his soul. What does he mean to you?"
"He means nothing to me," Xander replied, surprising Noah for the first time. "I am only trying to help a friend keep her promise. Leena gave her word to Kayla that she would save her child. And I happen to be the only one who can enter the Soulscape."
