#ghost time

( @spirits-of-the-witchwood )

(Aiden frowns with worry; guess today is a bad day. They were never easy… but he had to do the effort for Jeremiah. He gets closer to the tree and calls out for his friend)

"Thanks! He's been a work in progress for a while. I'm pretty proud of how far he's come."

"I cant wait until we get that far!"

"Oh yeah, yours still has that New Light smell!"

"... did you call my person smelly?"

"You called mine crunchy, roll with it."

So not only has Edwin been around for 100+ years (not counting the 16 he lived before, or if time gets weird in Hell), he’s been conscious for about 33% MORE time than the living would have been in that time.

That’s roughly an extra 4 months of consciousness every year.

Edwin was in hell for 70 years, meaning he experienced an additional 23 years worth of consciousness for the worst torture imaginable. Again, not counting any time dilation effects in Hell which almost certainly exist.

He’s had 30 years on the outside with Charles, plus 10 from not sleeping. 40 good years compared to 93 in Hell. It’s not even half.

And he still forgave the boy who sent him there. He still has love in his heart and the desire to do good in the world. Because no one did that for him. And no one deserves to be stuck in the afterlife without a light in the dark to cling to.

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