Jack walked across the room to his side closet and took a new robe out. It seemed he only had three left...

[I need more robes if I keep destroying all my clothes...] Jack thought to himself, as he donned his vestments.

[Can you please send some Holy Water to Eris' room.] Jack mentally messaged Lucius.

[Of course, my Lord.] Lucius replied.

Jack turned to see Eris, as he called to her, "Alright then, come now. We'll do this in your room." Jack said in almost the tone he would of an actual pet in his last life, seemingly taking the pet role of Eris serious. He just couldn't be bothered at the moment to deny it, and just wanted this over with quickly.

Eris crawled on her hands and knees across the room, and then kneed before Jack, with her arms stretched out right over her head, in a position that asked, 'pick me up.'

"Haaa~" Jack sighed as he reached down and scooped Eris up. Cradling her in his arms, he floated out of the room's entrance. As he did so, he spoke aloud, "Holy Sentinels, I know you're not fix-it kind of undead, but... I seriously need a new door. Can you guys do something about this."

The area buzzed with an accepting sound, and Jack nodded a few times. He made his way through the twisting halls to Eris' room.

Jack watched as two of Jade's handmaidens left the room, and prostrated to him, as he floated by them and went into Eris' room.

Jack put Eris on the floor and was about to speak for her to undress when she looked up at him with upturned eyes. Remembering the exchange they had last time, Jack just didn't feel like arguing.

He stripped the clothes from Eris, as he picked up the nude thing, and placed her into the Holy Water basin. Before he began in earnest, he took a small bucket and dipped it into the water. He poured the water over Eris' head and drenched her black hair.

Jack noticed that while her hair still had a red hue... It also had a few streaks of blond hair... As if bleached... High-Lights???

"Ummm... I like what you've done with your hair," Jack spoke honestly. As Eris was enjoying the care of her god, she became startled...

[What have I done with my hair?] She wondered. Not that she didn't like the praise, but why did her god speak praise this time. She would have to find a mirror.

He reached to the side table that held white linen clothes and took one to begin his work, as he had last time. He paused slightly looking at this perfect specimen of a feminine body. Jack couldn't help himself, as he looked over Eris again... A slender face with gold fangs in her smile, as those upturned eyes were large and with mischief deep set, though many other emotions stirred just below the surface, he continued his gaze at her fully nude glory. Breast that were full and defied gravity, with a thin waist that suggested she should wear a corset, but she was able to maintain that toned abdomen in a corset's absence... And her hips... sloping with the curve a woman should have from her waist into those wide luscious hips that then curved again into long legs.

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Jack shook his head, as his thoughts began to turn to more lewd lands. He could say that she didn't have a thigh gap, as his last life would suggest was perfection, but with how robust her thighs were... He would murder the maker that would change them to be such, as it only heightened that sense of spring scenery that was just out of sight but peeked upon movement.

"Oh, that's right... What did you want to tell me?" Jack asked as he came back to his senses, shaking his empty noggin.

Eris watched her god's dazed posture with amusement, as she moved in ways that would accent her body. Now being asked a question, she too turned serious.

This serious expression caught Jack off-guard, as he finished wiping her face.

"My god..." She almost whispered.

"Mind if I ask something before you begin?" Jack asked as he began with her right arm.

"Mmmm?"

"Why do you call yourself my pet?" Jack asked again, not that he expected a straight answer.

"Because you are my god... You are a god. What I want to talk about kind of ties into this, but to make it short. You're a higher being than I am... To anyone! A master to a pet. I am that pet." and in Eris' heart she whispered, "maybe I can be more to you one day."

"I... See..." Jack was slightly confused. He understood the god theory, but why still??? Jack believed, for the most part, everyone was equal in death.

"You see... I haven't... I haven't been entirely forthcoming with my god, and I hope- No I pray to you, that you will show me mercy. I have my reasons, and you... You don't seem to trust me, so I didn't really have a choice, but I want to be more than a pet, but being a pet is security- I'm so tired, and I want a place of my on- I don't want to think anymore, I just want to be kept. I want to be protected and cared for, and I can't-"

Jack paused his washing, as he interrupted and called her by name in a rare instance, "Eris calm down. I don't understand what you're saying, right now," As Jack was listening, she began to talk harder and faster, and it sounded like one long run-on.

Eris calmed herself, as she watched her god continue to clean. She smiled widely, as she breathed deeply. She could always smell her god when he was close or had been somewhere for a long period of time... Contrary to what his appearance and home would suggest of death... Her god smelled like... Eris sniffed again, just to make sure, and it was still there. He, or maybe it was his bones? She wasn't sure but it was something ambery... almost musky with a hint of leather and just a mix of some type of mouthwatering fruit-like apple. She first found this scent when her god held her after he fed her, and moved her to a new bed. That night she confronted herself as she thought about the lingering memory, even in her weakened state.

That smell made her intoxicated, and feel... Safe. It still did.

Jack noticed that Eris had become quiet, as he continued past her chest and on to her midsection.

She cleared her thoughts, only after taking in another breath, and began again, "Please forgive me, but when I gave you my heart... That... That was more than just a piece of me for you to hold hostage, as I might have led you to believe."

Jack stopped, as he vacantly stared at her, as his flaming eyes danced ever so slightly, [If this was an anime... That was a symbol of marriage... Nah... That can't- Nah... NAH! Shiiiit... Uh, yes! Yes! YES, IT WAS! Damn me!]

"I'll be right back," Jack spoke, as he put her washcloth to the side of the basin for safekeeping, as he stood up. He stepped out of the room and disappeared, leaving Eris sitting in her Holy Water basin of water to be left alone with her thoughts.

[Oh, no... No, no, no...] Eris thought to herself, as she watched the door close behind him. Was he mad? Did he know what it meant? But... If he did know then wasn't that good? Why did he just leave like that? He did say he would be back! But...!

Eris was dazed as many thoughts went in and out of her mind, and she breathed deep the lingering smell left behind, however faint it was...