Forty Two.

Atlas’s POV

Tala is trying to take over, isn’t she? Just like how you did with me.

‘If I remember correctly, you wanted me too!’

But it was what you were planning anyway!

‘Yes but that changed, remember! You wimped out!’

Well, fuck you. I like it this way better!

‘You like it better?’ I had never had a past host tell me they preferred it. They had always died out. Ryan had been the only one strong enough to cope with it.

Course I do. I still get to be with Aria. I still love her, but I haven’t got all the hard work of sorting your life out!

‘Interesting.’

When I thought I was going to die, I was ready to throw everything I had at life, but this, this is so much better!

He fades out and I feel him hovering around in the back of my mind, quietly humming to himself. A noise that I was gradually getting used to after all this time.

It still seemed strange, a man that wanted to hand his life over when everyone else had fought against me so hard.

“Is Aria okay?” Athena pulls me from my thou