I walked out of the bar again and followed the scent of Laurent and the girl who had the coin earlier.
Luckily i didn't have to track them for long. I found them embracing each other in the packing lot just out of the mall.
And here I was thinking Laurent was cold. Guess he still had his father's blood. He broke the embrace and took his coat off.
I turned and left, knowing this is a moment I can't interfere with. I walked past the bar again and looked inside. It was dark inside, guess they closed for the night. I could really use seeing her face again. Or taste something familiar again.
I gave up, asked myself for a moment what really was i doing here. She is not Ariana. I told myself. She may look, or sound like her. But she wasn't her. Even if her soul was Ariana's, she wouldn't be her without her memories.
I turned and walked the other side to the forest where I came from.
"Hey!" Someone shouted behind me as I covered my ears with my hood and kept on going. Wouldn't it be nice to at least once in a while be called at like a normal person not an immortal? "White hair guy! Hey!" The voice repeated and i stopped and looked back. Debby was running up behind me carrying a bottle.
I took the benie and hood off as i waited for her to catch up. But she just humped and puffed along the alley.
"Hey!" She shouted a few yards away while out of breath.
"What?" I asked.
"Your...your... Your bottle." She said handing me the bottle as she caught her breath. "This bottle is the only one of its kind on earth right now. You took only one glass of it and put it aside. Is it really bad or did you forget it like you forgot your meal?"
I looked at her not knowing what was going on with her. I'm pretty sure she didn't treat any of... Ariana. This was Ariana's style.
"What?"
"You long lives forget a lot. So did you forget to take it or should i take it?" She asked.
"What makes you think I'm old?" I asked and she kindly smiled at me.
"Your eyes are like that of Cyraon, they hold more stories than any history can. So are you going to take it or not?"
"I'll take it. Thanks." I took the bottle as she took one more look into my eyes. She seemed hurt, a bit. But there was no recognition in her eyes.
She turned and walked back to a group of people I saw walking out of the dark bar.
As she caught up with them, her voice went a few notes high and her smile glowed. She said something to them and they looked back at me.
My heart stopped and fell as i saw the other person she was with. Ellipse. The Aerum from the ghost city of Oval.
I turned and looked at the bar from memory.
What the fuck was with this bar? I opened the bottle and gulped half of it down my throat though it tickled my throat amd made me remember all that happened eons ago. Or maybe it was just her face that brought back the memories.
questions flooded my mind.was she...? is she...? I thought of her child. One she went to heaven, hell and back for. One she fought a god for, lost her people for. I wondered if she saw her. i wondered if she ever met or if in this reincarnation she ended up having her.
i knew she wasnt an immortal but, could she...? does she...? its been a long time since i saw her. remember me, does she? i closed my eyes and took a deep breath. this must be the alcohol beating me.
Yeah I'm probably looney and hammered. As i walked away, her laughter, i dissected it from the others as i remembered her pain in the last incarnation that broke my heart. it was way worse than Ariana's when she realized, the thousand lives of everyone in the continent of Aruana depended on her living or else her death was going to be nothing but the total annihilation of the entire continent. I knew she was scared her life was the doom of the continent, especially when the ensemble present day guardian corp was me and Ellipse and a couple of others. and that was what the guardians could do to save her life.
i finished the bottle as the memory of their deaths settled into my head. sole survivor. me. And forever walking the earth because of the things long quiet inside me.
I should have agree to let him take everything out of me. yeah. when...