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As the car moved down the road sam conversed with the voice, a peaceful smile adorned his face.

”Dear lord you have failed to absorb her lust at a level that is acceptable” it sounded scolding.

”I am well aware of that, it was a test.”

”A test”

”We didn't shake hands more than a second and how much did I absorb?”

” 0.42%”

”How much do I need to absorb?

”At least 70%

”So 0.42% per second so for 70% I would need to maintain contact for about 170 seconds, so about three minutes. That can be done” the smile sam was wearing looked very worrying to a stranger and even more so to those who knew him.

When they arrived back at sam's house, daniel immediately returned to his game while helped him at certain points and work out the details of the three-minute contact he needed.

They spent a good couple of hours like this, but around five in the afternoon daniel paused the game and turned to his friend. ”Can we talk?” the seriousness in his voice caused sam to pause in his planning.

”Alway” Sam answered as he stared daniel in the eye.

”Then can I ask what set you off last night?” everything about his as he asked spoke cation. And after hearing the question sam entered his flight or fight, and after a few moments of tense silence, sam answered.

”A higher being trapped me in a fake world.”

”A god trapped in a fake world,” his brow creased ”what's a fake world?” daniel confusion increased as sam started to laugh.

”I'm sorry hahaha it's not hahaha the question it's just bwahahaha that no god would attack me” at this point sam was laying on his side holding his stomach but then a thought crossed his mind that caused to stop laughing instantly ”except a war god but they would issue a challenge first.” sitting back up sam turned to his friend.

”A fake world is his grade illusion created inside of a pocket dimension, hard to recognize harder to break out of. I was trapped in one last night by a cosmic lord, from what I learned a cosmic lord is a being who rules over something on the cosmic level, hence the name. They trapped me because they wanted to see if I was worthy of being their successor it seems I was and after a little guilt-tripping I accepted the title of cosmic lord, the lord of lust it seems.” the more he said the more empty his voice became.

” and then what?” daniel asked after he sat next to his friends when sam gave him a confused look he elaborated ”sam I seen you give a mugger life advice while he held you at gunpoint demanding your money, that does not sound like something that should really bother you so I'm missing something.”

” what really upset me was the thought of what I would have to leave behind for me to take the new job.” sadness had invaded his voice ”I like the way live now I don't want it to change.”

”Sam” daniel quietly said keeping the pity nonexistent but not the sympathy 'haven't you told me that change is apart of existence for even if you yourself do not change the world around you will.”

”Uuugghhhhh, I can't believe that you're quoting me, I feel both proud and ashamed. And if you don't wipe that smirk off I will.'

Wiping his face clean of any expression daniel spoke again ”so how can I help you?”

”Thank you for the offer but I don't plan on getting you involved”

”I'm your best friends let me help”

'It's because you're my best friends that I won't let you help”

Daniel stood and placed his hand on sam sl\houders while he started the other teen in the eye,” as your best friends I can't in good conscience let you do this alone”

”Thank you,” Sam said with a smiled like a campfire that then shifted into a forest fire smile. The change in the smile caught daniel off guard long enough for sam to throw him down on the couch and sit on his back ”but I meant it when I said I don't plan on getting you involved”.

”Fine,” the skinny teen said as he tried to throw his friend off his back ”if that how you feel then so be it, ”daniel gave up trying to throw sam off ” uuggghhh can you get off I want to go home,” Sam quietly moves off his friend.

The two said nothing as daniel left the house slamming the door behind. Sam stayed sitting on the couch until he could no longer hear the sound of daniel's car.

”Dear Lord may I offer you some advice,” the voice asked after a few minutes of silence.

”No,” the lord said before he got off the couch and headed upstairs to his room where he grabbed the leather bracelet, the wool bracelet and the obsidian ring along with a five-inch long karambit pure black knife.

He then returned to the stairs where he began knocking on them one by one when he knocked on the 7th stair down it made a different sound from the rest. ”There you are” then using the knife he prided the tread off revealing a cavity that sam had made years ago that contain an obsidian rock the size of a grown man's thumbnail on a thin piece of steel tread.

After removing the necklace from the cavity sam replaced the tread and descend the stairs. Sam then made his way to the back yard. When in the backyard sam took off his shoes and socks, put on and tuck the black stone under his shirt.