Closer and closer the entities came until their target was felt rather than seen only a few yards away. The human was at a standstill for a small amount of time, and in that time the entities had gone back to their slow, gentle motions. When the target began moving once more, they were quick to bombard it.

All at once, the Soul Stars moved forward in a rush, the fog swirling around them in tandem to the quick gusts of movement. Many passed right through the target even as it moved. Their acttions were to somehow meld to the target in order to grasp onto its life force, not to drain it, but to take just a smidgen for themselves to create the bond necessary for their life. It did nothing to hurt the human in any way.

Several attempts went by without success as one entity after the other passed through the host. It took all of another minute for one of them to latch itself to the host. Most of the entities backed off almost immediately from the human, sensing that a bonding was taking place and that one of their own was now destined to exist this very night. There were a few, however, that attempted to knock the Soul Star away from the host in hopes to gain the upper hand and create a bond instead.

After several hits, the Soul Star was knocked from the host, the bonding having only been partly completed. It rushed off through the trees and into a small clearing where the light of the moon and stars could easily reach and penetrate the fog. There was a sudden bright light as a swirl of energy bloomed around the Soul Star, and in its shapeless place, from bottom to top, a human was formed.

Her skin, strangely littered with silvery patches and veins, was pale in the light of the moon, as were her scared, vivid blue eyes. Her hair, darker than the night sky, fell about her in loose ringlets and bobbed just slightly as she attempted to look around her.

What was this place, she wondered? Where was she, and why was she here?