~Jaxen Thanatos, FW Interlude, entry 6~
“Impossible brother, she can’t be back.”
“Jaxen, I have heard whispers-”
“None of their kind have walked these worlds in YEARS, nearly seven hundred in fact, or do you not remember?”
“Oh I remember, the smells back then were horrible, and the wine even worse. But, brother...I can’t explain it. I know she should not be back, I remember...but I also remember her voice.” Felix’s Adam’s Apple bobbed up and down. “I remember her touch, her scent...her taste. Nightmares plague me brother, for the first time since her death. Why now? I never dream! And I hear that others...strange tidings in the swamp....something is amiss.”
I laughed. I couldn’t help it. Felix was afraid, and that was something I not seen since she had walked this world. My brother just glared at me, but kept his tongue to himself. “Alright, say I believe that you aren’t just having guilty remissions.”
“Guilt, me?! What would I have to feel guilty about?”
“Plenty!” Eyebrows raised, waiting for him to challenge me. No challenge came, he merely scoffed and looked away. “What do you want me to do about it?”
“Go to the house, see if anything...is different. Burn the damn place down if you have to. Just make sure, she’s...not here.”
“Afraid she’ll come for your jewels?”
“And more.” I shook my head.
“Alright fine, but what do I get for this?”
“Keep your spies away from me and mine, for one. I know it’s sooooo difficult...”
He sighed. “Yes, yes, you and the brunette and whoever else, FINE. What else?”
“A favor of my choosing, for later.”
“You and your blasted favors, but fine. A deal, struck between brothers.”
We shook on it, and I left, chasing after a ghost of the past that, for everyone’s sake, should stay buried.
