"No, I doubt I will. I’ve watched over you this long, and known you for even longer than you realize." She trailed off and set her hands lightly at his chest. "I don’t only favor you for the Chaos you inflict, Sinbad…I know that we are two souls on the same plane of existence. Even if you walk on one rail and I the other, we’ll always be in the same direction." She sighed out and let her gaze drop to her own fingers. "I’m sorry for all the confusion, but I think it’s what binds us together. I don’t want to stop what you are…go, be reckless, it’s what I ad..mire about you.” She hummed quietly to herself and met his eyes. “So I will be bound to follow after you. Wherever havoc goes, I follow, I lead, I pursue and I push. We have no choice but to be…together.”
Sindbad knew Eris well enough by now to know that she was not a cruel woman - not to him, at least not genuinely - but the gentleness of her touches surprised him, and he felt a sudden wrench somewhere deep inside his chest. This was it, then - the moment that they had both been waiting for, to say out loud what neither of them had found the courage to say.
Now that it was here, he had to question how wise it all really was. History was filled with tales of gods and mortals - and he was no scholar, but even he knew that none of them had happy endings.
"Eris," he said, surprisingly gentle himself, raising his hands up to move hers from his chest. "You're wrong - you have a choice. I'm mortal; I won't be here forever."
