Nameless Immortal

Untitled Part 7

Chapter 7 Memento

Eznho just sat there while tears also started to form from his eyes. He always wanted to know about his origins but he knew that his aunt was just trying to find an appropriate time. He once tried to ask but both his aunt Minchin and his big brother Martin dodged the question.

After wiping her tears, Minchin calmed herself down.

"Wait here," she told Eznho and stood up.

She went inside her bedroom and when she walked out, she was holding a small wooden jewelry box. The box was plain with no design but it was polished, it was well maintained.

She sat back on her chair and put the box on the table. She opened it and took out a necklace. A small crude jade rock with rough edges the size of a thumbnail was being held by a thick thread. The thread was knotted to function as a net to hold the jade inside and a long part of it was left to be hung on the neck.

"This necklace was your mother's, she said she found it on a riverbank. It may not be worth that much but she treasured it greatly so she made it as a necklace. She told me to give you this at the right time for you to remember her by. I guess this would be the right time, may it serve as your lucky charm and help you through tough times. Your mother was a gentle soul, she would have been a good mother to you." She took Eznho's hand and put the necklace on his palm.

"Mother..." Eznho said while overwhelmed with sadness.

How nice it would be to have an actual mother taking care of you, he thought. Then he held the necklace tightly, afraid that the necklace might disappear.

"There's another one," Minchin interrupted.

She then took out a dark golden ring, it was a lady's ring. Just a few centimeters thick and would fit into a lady's ring finger. If you observe closely on the inside, indiscernible letters were engraved, they looked like runes of some kind.

"According to your mother, this was a gift from your father. I don't know anything about him so don't ask me." Minchin said with a stern voice.

She did not have a good impression on Eznho's father because she felt that he abandoned his family.

"Take it, it belongs to you now. If you wanna wear it, I suggest you wear it as a necklace alongside with your mother's. It's easier to hide it that way, people might get greedy when they see it." She warned Eznho.

She personally did not want to give the ring as it might invite trouble but Eznho was now the owner of it. He will be the one who will decide what to do with it.

"I'll take it, thank you aunt Minchin," Eznho said gratefully while taking the ring.

He had mixed feelings towards his father. He had no information regarding him, the only thing connecting him with his father was this ring so he wanted to keep it. He wanted to ask where was he during the attack and why did he not try to find him after all these years.

After a bit of thinking, he tossed all these questions at the back of his mind. He would think about it when the time comes. His focus now should be the problem at hand.

"I know you have a lot of questions right now, but I advise you to worry about it later on. The important thing for you to do right now is to survive this predicament." Minchin reminded him.

"Little Ez, listen to me, there are many things that could happen in a man's life that could change his destiny. There are evil lurking in every corner of this world. I don't ask you to become a malevolent saint, what I want is that if you can do good deeds, then do it. It doesn't hurt to help others when you can. I know that fate has not been good to you, but there is still goodness in this world. Once you get out of this walls and start your journey you will experience many things. I don't know what those experiences would be but I hope whatever decisions you make, think carefully and consider the consequences." Minchin advised.