Chapter Three (B): Eric & Alice

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Erik nodded to her ring. "That is important to you, the person that that ring represents, that your life's commitment to another person, that someone means more to you than anything else in the whole universe, and now they are gone? I have a ring too you know." He said with a nod as if that made it more true, "It represents many of the same thins, a life's commitment to something. A care for something more than I care about myself. It too had to be kept secret if it was to grow." As he talked about it he reached into his pocket to pull out a ring. it was large and made of iron and steel. He slid it onto his finger as he looked to her, seeing if she recognized what it was. "I am a knight, Erik Steiner, I too have a duty to my people, a devotion to them before myself, it is why I was on the ship at all, to see what the professor was really up to. Now I need to talk to someone that can gt things moving for us quickly I need someone intelligent and innocent. Will you come with me?"