The aspect of death knew better than most that the thing people regretted the most after passing was the things they hadn’t done, the chance they had not taken and the people they had not reunited with. It was those ties he had to cut for them to be able to let go and their spirits to move on and not linger. As an immortal he had several centuries behind him with thing he wished he had done differently. When his time would come to pass he believed that his many disastrous relations would be what haunted him and kept him prisoner on earth wandering around as a faint ghost seeing how they got the happy emending head wished for. Would it ever be his time? ”You’re right I should but it’s still a little sensitive so maybe not yet” Erythreus said sadly. Not only could it bring up old wounds or infect them, the three of them seemed to bring trouble and misery whenever they got together.

”Thats another way to see it” Ery chuckled amazed with the passion and love she spoke of the archives. He didn’t have a place like that where he felt completely at ease not even in the manor or at the isle of Skye. ”Isn´t that what books, movies and podcast are all about? Escaping the world for a bit forgetting about all nonsens and light worries” The broody male had been there many times himself but his way of escape wasn’t as innocent and health as daydreaming. The booze had been his way of escaping the harsh reality for the last few years. ”Glad to hear someone would notice my absence” The aspect mumbled his eyes on the floor. It was a thought that had bothered him lately. If someone would even miss him if he were to disappear.

”I think it appears differently depending who’d look at it ” He tried to recall more about what the old diviner had told him when giving him the ring. Now that he thought of it the whole thing had been kind of sketchy. Why would someone just approach him and give him a magical ring? Had he been so enchanted by love that he had stoped seeing warning signs. ”The woman told me that the ring would form it self to whatever appealed the one admiring it”

”Thank you, that’s nice to know” Erythreus was flattered by the offer but couldn´t help but wonder she really meant it. He couldn’t shake the comparison with his ex that refused to vanish. There were many similarities between the women both gentle kind and blonde, making the world a better place, both too good for him. Serena, even just thinking her name hurt, had also offered to be there when things got rough. When the lights in his sometimes dark world fainted. She was maybe his biggest heartbreak yet. He´d imagined their life together and even though they had had their differences and tough times the aspect had always believed it would make the stronger. However she hadn’t shared that vision he was just a project someone she could fix. Perhaps it was the same with Penelope? The blonde hadn’t known him long enough too experience him in his worst, and it wouldn’t be fair off him to kill the light in this girls eyes to with his darkness. It was safer to stay away, easier to choose the sassier one night stands than to potentially ruin both of their lives.

Erythreus stopped himself, now he’d let his mind drift away again. The diviner had only offered him a safe haven not a life together. She was probably not even interested in him that way. He pictured her kind of man someone very different from himself. Hell he didn’t even know if she had found her special one already.

”Sounds like a healthier pastime than mine” he scuffed. ” Maybe I should try it” he joked. The ancient aspect wasn’t exactly up to date with all electronics of this time. He didn’t even own a computer. The guard teased him for being a dinosaur when he needed help with the tech. Phones were toe easy to locate so he barely used those either.

”Why would it be easy” he sighed rolling his eyes and cursing Venetus for touching and gifting his belongings. ”Sure it somewhere to start” Ery agreed even though the aspect doubted the ring would have found its way back to the archives in the short time it had been gone. With his luck it wasn’t even in the country and guarded by some fairytale monsters and cursed. He followed Pen silently amazed of how the corridors changed shape soon her command.

”I don´t think so I think it needs physical touch to read the person and morph into the shape that pleases them” He hadn’t worn the ring himself so he wasn’t sure, it had mostly laid in a box in his drawer awaiting the right woman t give it to. Maybe it had more unrevealed powers. Should they try to find the woman selling it to him in the first place instead? He didn’t even know if she was still alive and could barely remember anything about her.