Aldrich returned to the Yellowsprings inn for breakfast. In his hand he was carefully holding a red stone that had strange patterns written on it, it was simply too smooth.
This was the Deadman's Remnant that he got from one of the Aberrant acolytes. He crushed it. The stone disappeared somewhere inside him.
He knew that was fine, in fact it was the best place to keep it. It wouldn't be funny if someone got their hands on it.
The Deadman's Remnant wouldn't activate unless he used his Eyes of Insight on it. But that was not a nice process. The last time he did that he almost died of dehydration.
Of course the current him was vastly different, but still Aldrich would rather do that in the nightmare realm where he had multiple lives and didn't fear death.
In the real world he very much feared death.
