"Rohan," she called, looking at his face, "about Astral, why did he break the rules to give you back your soul instead of crossing the River?" She had always been curious about this question since Kuhn told her.
Rohan was silent for a moment before he began to speak.
"I started to see Astral a few weeks before the day my heart was removed. I think it was because I was getting closer to my death, that's why I was able to see the reaper. At first, I pretended not to see it creeping into my room, until one day I was so desperate to talk to someone," his eyes held a distant look as he told her about the reaper he had befriended many years ago.
The boy, who feasted on rodents that lived with him in the lonely room—since he wasn't allowed to feed properly as a form of punishment for something he had done—put the half-eaten rat away as he felt the presence of the cloaked figure in his room again.
