It has been a few days since the event that shook the whole town, I was with Evelyn on a porch and she was asleep. Her head was resting on my shoulder while her body was turned towards me. I was looking at the sky, lost in my thoughts, when I received a com invite. I accepted and heard Tannyll talking.

"Hello?" I asked.

"Oh, there you are. When are you coming back?" She asked.

"Don't know, I still have some things to take care of in this town. Next I have to go talk to some gods about something and then I will possibly be back." I said.

"Okay, we will be waiting here until you return then." She said. "Over and out."

"Over and out." I said as she hung up. I sat there for a few minutes and decided that I will need to go get that favor the gods owed me. I picked Evelyn up and moved her to the bed, wrote a note for her, then walked out of the building. When I was far away from the house, I whispered the name given to me and was teleported directly to Neana.

"Welcome, Jayden, to the realm of the gods. What is it that you would like? Queus's head, several of our best women, the best armor? I can give you anything as long as it is reasonable." Neana said.

"I have two requests but I need to tell you in private." I said.

"I see, then lets go to my room. We can talk there about those requests and I want to ask you for a favor if you are willing." She said. I nodded and as we left, Queus showed up and stopped us from leaving saying "My lady, I cannot allow you to leave with this mortal. That would be a dishonor amongst the gods."

Neana looked at him and slapped him while saying "And what you did in their realm was honorable? You should be ashamed of yourself. I was going to let you suffer for a few centuries, but now I will give you a bigger punishment. GUARDS! Take Queus down to the cells and keep him there until I come down to punish him."

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Queus turned pale and couldn't resist as he was dragged away. Neana turned to me and apologized and continued on. When we reached the room, she let me in and locked the door while making the room sound proof and check for anything that could pick up sound in the room before sitting on the bed.

"Come, sit with me Jayden. I will make sure that Queus is punished for that. Now what was the requests that you had?" Neana said.

"Okay. One, I need a personal guarantee that no god except you will come to the mortal realm. And two, I want someone to come with me to make sure that no one other than you come." I said as I sat down.

"Easy enough, it will be done. Now for the favor I want to ask...?" She said then stopped.

"I will do what I can to help." I said.

"Well... Can I make you my husband?" She asked. I didn't process that until a minute later, then my mind collapsed. "Only in name though. People out there see me and think 'Hmm, lets make her my wife' even though I told them that I will choose who I marry."

I thought about it for a few minutes and said "Sure. If it is in name only, I am ok with that. I have to ask, is there a tradition that you guys have about marriage?"

"Only that we must prove that we are married. There are many ways to do that, one is to get two rings and link our souls. Another is we can cast a seal on each other that makes it so that no one else can touch us. The last one, which is the most common, have sex in public and put a mark on each other to show that they are claimed. I suggest the first one as I have a great collection of rings that we can choose from." She said happily.

"Lets do the first option too, I can make it so that we can't take off the rings. That way people can't kidnap you and take it off and say that you aren't married." I say as I find the spell. The spell actually makes it so that only I can take it off or remove the spell binding it. If someone tries to take the spell off, or destroy it, the universe will form a celestial body and kill the person in question.

"Ok lets go down to the treasury and choose the rings from there. Oddly enough, the previous leaders actually gathered a bunch of matching rings. It's like they were preparing for this moment." She said. We walked into the treasury and I froze on the spot just seeing the piles of rings linked to their copy. This is just the surface of what is really here.