"Does it matter?" Wisdom responded.
Carnelia whirled around and growled at Wisdom. Why did this idiot that was supposed to be wise foolish? Don’t poke the sleeping bear, everyone knew that. If death wanted to hear that Nyx would erase Esong’s conscience from existence just tell him that even if there was a possibility that it would not happen.
Wisdom however didn’t care and he had to remind death of so facts and truths. Lying to the deity of death would only bring more complications later on.
"He will be both, most likely. Esong’s mories will not fade just because Nyx is now a part of him. I didn’t sign on to this to help you erase the human part, death, I am here for Nyx and to do what’s best for Esong and Nyx. He wants to be with Scarlet in every way and this is the only way.
He needs to be both the human and the reaper otherwise he will just be a stranger to her. After everything he has sacrificed for his fellow reapers...for the underworld and for you death, especially, his story deserves a happy ending."
He had just completed his words when the two deities had sniveling. They both noticed Carnelia wiping tears from her eyes.
"Don’t look at like that. I just feel so sad for him." She said.
"Deities don’t know how to cry, stop putting water in your eyes." Death disdainfully told her.
Carnelia blinked like a fool and laughed. The story of Nyx and Scarlet was touching. It was the perfect love story between two grim reapers. It wasn’t her fault that she couldn’t cry even though she wanted to. Wisdom was right, the story needed a happy ending.
She sighed and looked at Nyx. "I hope she intends to co back soon."
Everything that Nyx had sacrificed or tried to achieve would go to waste if Scarlet didn’t return eventually.
Back on the space ship, Justin’s gardening class ended and he run off to play with the little robot army Scarlet had given him as a gift. Justin and teacher Kong used it to simulate different historical battles as a ga.
She locked the door and blocked out all sound temporarily.
"Severus, co closer let’s break down so things."
The hound shuffled closer grudgingly. It had been about to take a bite out of one the sweet ripe red dangling tomatoes.
"What?"
Scarlet held both of her palms out facing upwards. "Esong and Nyx. I am still angry but I have been thinking about things even though I don’t want to think about them. Are they one or two different people?"
"Two." Severus said. "Why?"
"Because I am trying to figure out if I am married to one or two n." she answered.
The answer rolled off her automatically. She had spent two weeks with these thoughts in her mind and she needed to put them out.
"Well...I don’t know." Severus shook his head. "I an, Nyx is not human so if you are counting a pure physical body then you are married to just Esong. But for Nyx to go into Esong’s body there must be a soul tie of so kind. There is a rumor among the hounds, sothing to do with soul splitting.
Do you rember when Lanta first ca to the Blue star and she visited all sorts of supernatural creatures so you asked to trace her steps."
"I rember, she wanted to know about a conversation between Nyx and Wisdom." Scarlet had got that answer out of the banshee.
Since they were on the subject, Severus decided to share all that he heard in the underworld. Before this abrupt trip, he had spent a large amount of ti down there training in preparation for the war while Scarlet relaxed in her castle.
"One of my old friends Dodyr, that serves on the hound council said sothing weird. According to him, Nyx did sothing to his soul and it went to a human. It’s crap of course because Nyx wouldn’t exist if he had no soul. But from what the banshee said back then and that rumor all I can guess is that Esong and Nyx have a soul tie which allows Nyx to inhabit Esong’s body occasionally."
Scarlet nodded because this was just as she figured. Two personalities in one body. She shook her head as more confusion poured in like a flood. She loved Esong or Nyx, or both. She had no idea because to her, he was one. It never once crossed her mind that sotis it was one man and sotis another.
"So who exactly do I love?" She turned to Severus and asked.
The hound shook his head honestly. When it ca to that he was just as stumped as she was. He wanted to say both but that would confuse Scarlet even more.
"The children, who is their father?" She asked him.
"Nyx." That was sothing he could answer with absolute certainty. "The wings which you love so much. You gained them because one or all of your children. Only natural born reapers have wings so they inherited that from their true father."
For a while, Scarlet remained silent. Severus had clarified a few of the questions and doubts which had occupied her mind. It did not an that her anger had been alleviated and it didn’t take away her confusion. She still had no idea if she loved Esong or Nyx. She wondered if she would have to let one go if she chose the other.
The thought made her shake her head. "Why think about it now, it’s not that important right now." she whispered to herself.
She needed to keep her mind focused on the important things. This weird situation, it could wait.
"Do you want to know where he is? I can reach out to my father secretly and get an update."
She rejected his help imdiately and she stood up. She also brought down the sound barrier.
"No, it’s not necessary. If he wanted to know then he would have told . It’s obvious that he didn’t so I will not look for him. Let’s just assu that no news is good news at this point."
Severus was expecting that exact response from her because she was still angry after all.
They didn’t return to the bedroom but went to one of the entertainnt areas. Adler and Tion were arm wrestling. She didn’t bother to stay there.
Cecily and Etienne were watching Justin and teacher Kong’s battle. Lora was once again fighting chas, taking on the identity of the hound.
She had successfully taken Scarlet all the way to top twenty. Her and Apheitos who changed her weapon of choice into a hamr every ti he invaded Lora’s body. Arya was in the kitchen preparing lunch with a robot butler. She was playing loud music and dancing with a smile on her face.
Scarlet figured that she should just return to her bedroom and cultivate her soul power because everyone was busy.
Severus didn’t follow her, he stayed back in the kitchen. He laid down, waiting for the steak which he could sll and thought about their complicated lives, Scarlet’s mostly. If she wanted his advice it was simple. Scarlet should choose Nyx if she was ever given a choice. It was a no question who was better for her between the human and the reaper. The reaper was the better choice obviously. He was immortal, powerful, loved her, made her happy and the father of her children. What was so hard about the choice?
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