“Meaning Skul Drek—even as a piece of my cousin’s soul—has not answered to him. Beyond his control, blood has spilled for a duty he could never escape.” “He seemed to command it fine enough against the Stav.” “Because of you.” Emi shook her head, calming her tone. “Roark is a split soul. Divided between his darkest desires and the man he is in his heart. Skul Drek is a glimpse of his most brutal, cruelest, most inhumane attributes. A damn weapon to be summoned by the one who split his soul. And he was, for years. Until you.”
