Addison stood stern. She was not in the mood to be meddled with. And Dextian could tell. She walked around her island, leaning against the ledge, her arms crossed at her midsection, and a hard glare in her eyes while looking towards Dextian. And all she had to do was say one small sentence.
"Start talking." The tone of her voice was what gave Dextian the clue, she was being serious. He'd never seen this side of her. He never gave her a reason to let this side of her show, at least until now.
"I'll start simple. You are correct. I am one of them. I'm what history books and bibles call The Fallen. As are the others that you saw earlier at the ranch. Before I was condemned to that orb that you had found, I was their commanding general, that's why, Archibald, questioned me with the name commander. We all were once legendary warriors for the one lord all mighty. Me, the commanding general, the reason for all the tattoo markings. It's our symbol of ranks. Most of them aren't as high as me, but Arielis, she's a lieutenant. Or Jophiel, he's Arielis's older brother. He's a commanding chief. It was set by the great god himself." Dextian explains, standing slightly stiff a few feet in front of her living space area.
"That doesn't tell me why you suddenly appear in my bedroom of my apartment at 2:00 am in the morning, or why you explode from an orb hours later after I bought it. Why is all of this shit suddenly occurring now? And better yet, why didn't you tell me the truth sooner? I thought you trusted me. I thought we trusted each other." Addison's words gave Dextian a wave of guilt he'd never felt before. "I've drawn your kind before. Why didn't you trust me with the truth? Why when I trusted you with mine?"
"I didn't want to scare you off, Addison." She pauses for a second, hearing his reason, the seriousness in his voice, she hears it. "I've lived a long, long time. The reason I was in that orb to begin with, I made a decision that was against all my protocols set by God. I broke almost all the rules. I cared about someone so much back then, I showed her who I was, I risked everything for her, but when she sacrificed everything for me, including her lifetime and time again. I did everything in my power, all the abilities I had, to try and bring her back. And I did, but there was a price she had to pay with it. God didn't approve of what I had done. He trapped me in the orb, casted out my patriots as my punishment. And then suddenly I appear in your room, at 2:00 am in the morning. And when I locked eyes with you, I knew that it was real."
"You're changing the subject." Addison says brushing off the fact that the butterflies in her stomach are fluttering around.
"No, I'm not. I'm getting to the reason for your question about why I showed up in your room after you had bought the orb, I was trapped in." Dextian conveys and Addi sighs letting him continue while she hoists herself up onto the counter. "The reason I'm telling you about the woman, the reason behind why I was in the orb to start off, is because it's you, Addison." Addison's whole-body tenses. Not understanding what he's saying. "Addi, you've lived longer than you realize. We've known each other for over 1,000s of years."
"No, that's not possible. That can't be true. My family, my life. That's all real. I couldn't have lived for 1,000 years. How is that even possible?" Addison questions as her hands start shaking her breathing becomes shallow.
"It's called reincarnating, Addi. You are an example of a reincarnation that has been going about the world for 1,000 years. And somehow, every time you appear in a place, I end up finding you and falling in love over and over again as the story starts over once more." Dextian says, walking over slowly to where Addison is sitting on her countertop. "It's a never-ending occurrence. Us meeting is just an example of fate. But your reincarnation is a curse to you. Because of me."
