“Slippery things, souls.” I lifted Alysdair and wrapped both hands around her handle, letting the sword pull on my magical reserves. “They’re surprisingly easy to lose and damned difficult to get back.”
As a soul eater, Ace has an intimate relationship with souls. He drains them of power, ending their eternal journey. As a child, he swam among them in Duat's river (against Osiris' command). During his short stint alongside his surrogate Mother, Ammit, the Great Devourer, he abuses his power and overdoses on the souls he's meant to judge fairly, thus seeing himself tossed out of the underworld and cursed to walk the Earth with the worst soul of all bound to his: Shukra. Ace has spent the last few centuries trying to atone for that sin, but... as you'll see in the series, he's not doing too well.
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