Somehow, she realized that it would be in her best interest to keep her secrets from Jacob Kane. He was a curiosity, but being an unknown and with his reaction to what he was hearing, she just knew that things would go badly if he knew about her magic.

"You'd be surprised," she replied, her tone hard, "There are many people who don't value the soul in the same way we do."

But his statement gave her more pause. Their soul into their own noose. That was exactly what Eshai had done to them and was still doing to them. Their gems were as much a prison as the lanturns had been. They didn't even know how to leave, not that she wanted to.