"Gael has been talking about something dark being inside me, right?" Alice said. "It's also strange that my dragon form is black instead of gold, especially when everything I know about my bloodline suggests that it should have been different."
Emily stared at the Alice for a moment before finally asking, "So, what is it?"
Alice looked down at herself, as though she could somehow see the thing that had been hidden within her for so long.
"It's me. Or rather, it's my emotions. I don't know how, but my emotions stayed with me even though a new cycle started. From what I understand, those emotions should have been subdued inside the soul, like what happened with Celia, until I regained my memories. But that black thing was different; it was the emotions that came along with me into the new cycle."
