8The rest of the week went by like a blur. Aeria would ask me questions for hours at a time, wanting to know all she could about the spiritual plane. There were times I had to elbow her to keep her voice down when her questions weren’t restricted to our dorm rooms. Talking about the dead, and all that comes with it, didn’t seem to faze her. As she put it, she believed in spirits before all of this, so being what I was just confirmed it for her. And having Damon there to be a secondary confirmation was enough to solidify her beliefs.
He was relieved that she knew his secret. It turned out that this was the first time Damon had ever confided in anyone before, and it relaxed him. Confiding in me alone only caused anxiety for us both and having Aeria in the mix helped ease the tension. Until
