Ai stops his brother from touching the boy. "Don't."
"Can't you see that she's hurting him?" Aren pants. "What's wrong with Renasir Ari?"
Ari's eyes are also closed. Her thumb is still on the boy's head. The boy's eyes are rolled back. His voice is hoarse from screaming.
"Please trust her." Ai tells him quietly, "I heard about the forsaken ones. It's a punishment in this world for the creatures who are abandoned by all the gods of the realms. Whether it's darkness or light, they aren't part of it anymore. The boy might have turned into a forsaken one after we brought him back from the afterlife."
"Then, what about us?" Aren scowls at him. "We should become like him too."
"Brother, we are a part of Iravan." Ai reminds him, "Our souls don't follow the law of this world."
Aren understands his words now. "Then, we are the reasons why this boy became…"
