What happened to Isaac?

Time is like an hourglass. When the last grain of sand falls, Xavier's figure also disappears into history.

He opened his eyes.The shadowless lamp above his head made him unable to see for a while, only to hear a familiar voice say: "Are you awake? How do you feel?"

"...Gordon. It's you again."

Xavier turned his face away from him, got up and sat on the edge of the bed, resting his forehead, unable to calm down the palpitation caused by time and space backtracking for a while.

"Can't I come and see you?" Gordon moved a small chair and sat opposite Xavier, as if nothing had happened, his innocent expression made Xavier feel his stomach convulsing.

"Of course you can," said Xavier, "anyone has the right to open my door now, except myself."

"Please, don't say that. What did you see? How did you tell yourself?"

Xavier asked, "What year did I go?"

"1524."

"In 1524, I was only eight years old. What do you expect me to say to me?"

Gordon sneered: "That's because you didn't choose the time well. So, you haven't made up your mind yet? There's not much time left for you to think about it."

"..."

"I'm not spying on you, Langdon," Gordon said. "I know what you saw. That dog tag, with the coordinates on it, are your human residence, right?"

After a moment of silence, Xavier asked, "Is Isaac an angel? What happened to him to become a succubus?"

"I can't answer your question, but I think you already have the answer."

Xavier was noncommittal.

After this, Gordon sat in the room for a long time, and he reached out to pick up the dog tag Isaac gave him from Xavier. He told Xavier that maybe Isaac didn't mean that he wanted Xavier to remember himself, even if It doesn't matter if you lack memories from the 17th century onwards, after all, they knew each other long before that.

"Just like you bought him out of nowhere on the market in the first place," Gordon said, "you're going to come together."

Xavier said nothing.He seemed to be very tired, and the eyes that looked at Gordon seemed no longer so hostile. He patted him on the shoulder and left the room.

Before he stepped out of the room, Xavier suddenly stopped him: "I remember dying of cholera when I was. How many years was that year?"

Gordon paused: "1534?"

Xavier thought for a while and said, "Yes."

When he was silent, he couldn't help but think of a question.There is no cholera in the UK itself. The epidemic came with ships in the 19th century.

Then why did he die of cholera?

**

AD1534?England?East End of London

Can the angel Isaac do a bad thing.He learned a little magic from Gast, and the first time he used it was to steal a silver ring from a pawn shop.

It all started when he overheard a conversation between the Xavier brothers and sisters.It was winter, and the two were sitting around the firewood. The younger sister was mending clothes. She accidentally pricked her index finger. She frowned and put her fingertip in her mouth. Xavier said, "You can rest for a while."

The younger sister shook her head and smiled at him: "I'm afraid you won't be able to wait."

Xavier's face flushed.

Isaac didn't know what was going on.He listened puzzled for a long time before he could piece together the complete picture from everyone's words: Xavier might be marrying a farmer's daughter.However, their family backgrounds are quite different. If Xavier wants to marry her, he must at least bring a suitable meeting gift to propose marriage, but he can't even afford the cheapest ring now.His father advised him not to dream, because the family could not afford half a penny; but his sister was very supportive of his marriage, hoping to contribute, and gave Xavier most of her maid's money.

But with this little money, I don't know how long it will take to save a decent thing.Xavier has been sighing sadly recently, and Isaac also became depressed when he heard it.

"Is there anything to pawn?" Xavier said, in a dreamy tone, opening the mother's worm-eaten wooden box under the bed, and fiddled with the cheap things inside— — A few old letters, half a brooch... He picked up a thin rope, under which hung a thin piece of iron that was beginning to rust, with a coordinate engraved on one side.

Isaac froze for a moment when he saw this.Ten years ago, he lost it and couldn't find it in the room. At first, he was very troubled. Fortunately, he had memorized the coordinates on it, but he didn't expect it to land on Xavier.

Xavier looked at the small iron piece suspiciously, as if he didn't know why there was such a thing.But the younger sister laughed and said, "Didn't you say it was a gift from an angel?"

Xavier was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "How many years have passed, and you still remember it. In fact, it may not necessarily be an angel, the person who pushed me away from the carriage, thinking about it now, may be just an angel." Just a good guy." Having said that, he still moved lightly, put it away and put it back under the bed.

No one knew what Isaac felt when he saw this scene.He wandered around here for a few days, and at last he fell in love with a pawn shop, and while the clerk was dozing off, he used magic to steal a small silver ring.It was the first time he had done such a thing, clutching the ring in his hand like a beating heart.

He came to Xavier's house, walked in through the back door, and didn't see Xavier in the usual place.The atmosphere at home seemed to be very heavy, the father was still in a drunken daze, and the younger sister, with her tired eyelids half drooped, held a glass of water and medicine, and pushed open the door of Xavier's room.

Xavier is sick.

At first Isaac did not take the matter too seriously.He thought it was just an ordinary headache and brain fever, and it was normal for human beings to get sick.However, when he saw Xavier's weak appearance, he was not sure whether things were as simple as he imagined.

Isaac reached out to feel the temperature on Xavier's forehead, but couldn't touch him, so he could only pace up and down the room anxiously.The younger sister carefully lifted Xavier up and fed him medicine. The two of them were chatting. In order to make Xavier happy, she mentioned the angel again, but she didn't know that the angel was really in this room at this moment.

……

The next day, Xavier was doing better and was even able to get out of bed and walk around a bit.He pushed open the window for some fresh air, and out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of something gleaming on the ledge.

It was a silver ring, and the angel's gift had appeared in due course on his windowsill, as had the little iron piece.After a long absence, Xavier began to believe in the existence of angels again.

That night, he vomited green water again. The doctor said that he had never seen such a symptom, but it seemed that he only needed to rest, so Xavier was bedridden again.He had the ring by his pillow, and either tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, he would propose as soon as he recovered from his illness, Xavier thought.

It's just that he doesn't know, whether it's tomorrow or the day after tomorrow...

A month later, when Isaac was about to go to the earth by car as usual, a messenger suddenly stopped him: "Congratulations, you can make Isaac an angel. Your mission is over."

"What?" he asked.

"Landon Xavier is dead."

Isaac froze in place as if he had been punched: "Are you sure there is nothing wrong? I haven't received any notice."

"It was an accident," said the messenger, "but you are not responsible."

This is the second time Isaac has heard "don't take responsibility" as a consolation.He had always been unable to understand the horror of responsibility, which made people avoid it, and now he felt that he probably knew it—responsibility was a dagger that would stab him.Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why he suddenly felt an uncontrollable pain in his left chest.

"You don't have any questions, do you? Then I'm leaving."

There are places on Earth where there is a tradition of murdering messengers who bring dire news, and Isaac feels for a moment that he understands those angry relatives.He has this ability.But the fact is that he just silently watched the messenger go away without saying a word.