Gabriel Five days had passed since Raphael split her soul. Five days, I watched as she drew further and further into herself and grew further and further away from me. For five days, I’d kept my cool. But today, I was losing it. I was agonized by her withdrawal, already being driven insane by the separation, even though she was physically right here in the same room with me. Every night, we had fallen asleep in each other’s arms with no physical intimacy. Not that I needed it. It was just another attribution to her slow decay. Raphael had mentioned this could happen, since her soul had been displaced into her womb. I was guessing, since it had been displaced, her body was starting to turn into a shell because there wasn’

