Matias laughed at me when I told him the truth of what had happened to us centuries before. He doesn't believe in fate, nor in reincarnation. He said he died once and came back already, and that dying twice and coming back would be a fool's chance. I laughed too. I hope this time I die first.
They will never love me as the others once did.
We should've died together.
I should've died with them.
IT LIED, IDA
THE BEING GRANTED HER WISH BUT IT LIED
Ida, how long did you have to wait again?
Sol asked to see my pendant. When he saw who he had looked like before, I saw his face fall and his eyes fill with such a heartbreaking yearning that I almost wished to lie to him. He closed his eyes, his eyelids heavy with tears. "How do you know we are your old companions?" he asked softly, sweetly, kindly. I said I knew it, for our love is the same, but he was already looking through me, wondering who I had been, as if I had been the one who died two centuries ago.