“Save him? How could you do that when I couldn’t?” Desmond questioned. His voice cracked when he spoke, his emotions finally getting the better of him.

“Because we were the first. The first to protect the souls of both the dead and the living from the darkness,” the cloaked figure replied.

Desmond just stared at the being cloaked in light. He was trying to wrap his head around what it was saying to him. It was the first to protect The Echo and The World ...