[center][i]"Here ya go, Mister! After all it's nearly Christmas! Do you like Christmas? I love it! There's snow! And-and hot chocolate, and presents! Oh I love presents! Aren't presents wonderful, Mister?"[/i]

Brontes looked at him for a moment, it was truly nice to see Amare again with his always positive demeanor. That awfully big smile and his bubbly attitude as if there was nothing wrong with the whole of existence. He should have expected that he wouldn't recognize him, after all the form he currently had wasn't even close to the form he used on Earth back in the old days before the Fall, this one was rough and old and scarred, a form he created after he betrayed everyone, full of overwhelming feelings of wrath and sadness.

Wrath towards the Gods who had mistreated Humanity since the day of its creation and sadness because he had probably ruined his chances for a life full of people who cared about Death himself.

"Christmas is nice I guess. Any day involving presents is nice, presents make people happy and happy people are great, don't you think so too?"

Amare can not help but blink at that and smile. Yes, yes presents are fantastic things. He can still remember the day when Brontes introduced him to the idea of birthdays, simply because he loved getting presents so much. There is now a sadness in his eyes as he thinks of The Lonely God he once knew so well. Yes, presents are great. Amare should know- he's gotten a lot of them from Brontes. Though perhaps the best present of all was Bronte's constant companionship. Even when Amare grew up and was more of a party boy than the sweet child he used to be. Brontes was always there for him.

"Yeah...presents are great." He decided, still trying his best to be chipper, before sounding unusally mature "However I think the best present of all is having someone else by your side."

"Yeah, I think I know what you mean. I had such a person once, what you'd call a friend but I betrayed him. He would always be my side and I will always be by his but I chose Earth over him. I didn't really understand it back then but he was... he was actually the most human of my kind. Prone to mistakes yet always willing to do anything to see me happy. Selfish yet selfless at the same time... Ah, I've started to ramble."

Brontes took a few steps back and pulled his teddy bear from inside his dirty coat.

"Listen, I don't think that I have a lot of time, I want to give you this." he said as he presented the raggedy toy to him. "A really special person gave it to me and I have this really crazy idea that I would like you to have it, an early Christmas present."[/center]