"It liked to play a lot of mind games like that," Tony said, as though that was a reason to only feed someone onions or eggs for a whole month. The spam month, he'd almost gone vegetarian.

The news about the quirky thing that happened here had Tony's eyebrow raising. "That's very strange. We didn't have people aging but there were a number of other.. problems that would happen from time to time. That actually puts some validity to the theory where I'm from, where Prompto is from, and here are connected somehow."

And he had to laugh at that. "I'd love to see pictures of your boy." And he really would've too, if the conversation had gone a different direction.

"Yes, the boys tried to.." He sighed and moved to sit, but the offer made him stop. He turned back to Regis. "No!" He put a hand both under and over his friend's and shook his head again. "No.. no, it's not.. it's a beautiful ring and I'd never want you to take it off. It's.." He took a breath to simply force the words out.

"I was engaged on the train and it's shocking how similar the ring I had made looked just like that one. The only difference is the color and maybe just some really minor details but.. it's complicated. The man I was engaged to is here, but it's not the one I knew." He let go of Regis' hand and finally did move to sit. "And to make things even more complicated.. the man was um.. having challenges? We were constantly arguing and I was planning how to break things off. He disappeared. A few weeks or a month later, I'm not sure exactly how long, I'm here seeing him again with someone else."