In a dream state
"Such marvelous lights from a flame!" Someone excited and overjoyed proclaimed.
As the flame flickered, shouts of joys and praise came from the person. As the day ended, tears of sorrow and pain were there.
"Why must I endure the suffering of my past?" The person cried with great fervor.
This dream state continued until finally, War God woke up.
She knew the amount of time had passed due to the dream. Yet, she was sure that Georgiana and Zahida were both exhausted from keeping up with the two of them. She told them to go rest, before she could finish they both were on their way.
War God smiled. Yet, something seemed amiss in her thoughts. She could remember the deed in front of the area they were supposed to do. Yet, afterwards it is like a blank spot in her memory. She hoped that Rex would be able to explain the situation to her.
In the dream state
"Demon King of Will, how may I be of service?" The flame was asking.
"First off, why am I here? Secondly, why do you seem familiar?" Rex asked.
The flame flickered across the landscape. Such beauty and rage could not be seen in other flames. That is not why it did that for the Demon King of Will.
"Flame of Eternal Rest and Torture" Rex said.
This flame came into Rex's mind. As he said the words, his mind was filled thoughts about the flame's nature.
A flame that cannot be used by Mortals or Immortals. A flame that resides in every world, Realm, and person. The center of it can be used by such candles like what Zahida brought out.
The flame is not made to help minds. It is to torture it until it can no longer remember something horrible while erasing itself in the process.
While painful torture is normal, mental torture is truly vast and different for each person. Each individual is different, even if two people share the same lifestyle and live the same life. One will always find ways to be more emotional in either direction than the other. Due to that, the person who experienced more hardship or felt more hardship will be unhappy or upset. This is where the flame comes in.
By causing the most painful memory to be brought up front and confronted by the flame. The person will undoubtedly feel that the flame torturing him or her will be more painful. Since that memory is constantly staying up front, the flame melts away the memory slowly. Some people have it easier than others, others have it painful as hell erupting.
No matter which way it goes. The memory and the torture will both be eaten away. At the same time, this causes the memory of right before and right after to be a blank spot in the memory.
"Demon King of Will, you are currently here because you watched the flame of the broken candle for the required time limit. You alone cannot force your memories to be changed or altered.
I cannot delete the memories for your own protection. If you wish to draw them out and have changes done. We can do that, we can also alter the smells and visuals of whatever happened."
Rex thought about it. At least removing the smells from his memory would do him good. He was also influenced just to change the entire memory itself.
"Remove the smells."
So the duo started to remove only the smells from his memory. As time went on, Rex finally only had the smells removed.
"We reached the end point, Demon King of Will."
Rex smiled gently he was ready to pay the flame what he was owed. Yet, the flame did not take the payment.
"Helping such a man as yourself is indeed worthy enough to be good payment."
Rex felt bad but instead found a way for the payment to be paid.
"Since a traditional payment cannot be paid. How about we change the payment?"
This caught the flame's attention.
"Have a small amount of your flame enter into myself. Make it where I can help others with terrible memories become better. That way you will be able to continue to get paid while I can help others. What do you think?"
The flame seriously took the deal. It knew the consequences of itself not being able to fully enter Rex's body.
"We can try!" The flame overjoyed remarked.
Rex closed his eyes all flames inside of him rejoiced at a new brother inside of him. This shocked the Flame of Eternal Rest and Torture.
Before he knew it, the flame was inside of him. While others would feel excruciating pain and torture from the flame just trying to go through the pores of the skins. Rex felt nothing. Finally, he woke up.
"Greetings, Master." The duo of Zahida and War God said.
"What time of day is it?" Rex asked.
"Almost sunrise."
"Well then, good morning."
"Good morning, Master."
As he laid in bed, Georgiana came in. She was happy to see Rex awake.
She came up and snuggled against him. Something was different, his body felt much warmer than normal and his chest seemed to be much better.
"What happened to you while you were recovering?"
Rex smiled and the tip of his finger lit up like the color of the candle flame.
"I now have a small amount of his flame inside of me. So if there are any bad memories that we need to take care of. Now would be the time to do so."
As if time stood still, not a person in the room believed that the flame naturally went inside of Rex. They believed that Rex forced the flame inside to be able to always shift his bad memories.
"Please be careful when trying to change your memories. They do come at extreme prices." Zahida cried.
"No need to worry. We will be fine, together. "