With sad eyes he sat on the edge of the bed, head down and hands resting painfully in his lap. He honestly felt extremely terrible, he knew that even though she was in pain she wouldn't die she wasn't meant to for another ten years... And that hurt more then his hands did at that point.
When she asked the question about his wife his head shot up, sending her a look with no emotion. But with a sigh he returned to staring at his band head hands. "My wife..."
"She was a living person... Well, she was a human soul," he began, a gentle smile coming to his face, "her name was Nao, and she was behind kind to me and all others. Shay and Alexial when they first came along." He laughed at the memory. "I admitted her name because I felt odd around her and I wanted to know why."
"Found out it was love... Funnily enough and she couldn't tell me why I felt it. But she...she stayed with me and made me feel wanted, made me feel like so,eating more then what I seemed.
She taught me about things I didn't know, emotion and human nature, she helped me become more human, I used to terrify people on my boat because I was less like a person they could trust their soul with and more like a grim reaper... Haha..."
"She was never scared when I had my rare bouts of anger, not did she ever seem frightened when she saw what I really looked like..." His hands trailed over each other, crane like sleeves hanging low. "I used to always look like this, without the bloodied hands, and we were fine together. Happy and she was perfect... I loved her more then I should have I think."
"But all souls fade if both brought to their place of rest... I didn't realise that until years later... Not many years ago she fell ill, always in pain and I didn't know what to do... When I did it was too late and she was gone..."