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What is this thing? - Zephyr - 12-27-2024
Zef sat in her apartment staring at the two devices sitting on the coffee table. She had no idea what they were, or how she was supposed to use them. This looked like dangerous and creepy bugs like something you'd see in horror flick. She sipped at a glass of white wine and wondered what Jaxen was doing, or what he'd been doing while she was gone. Though from the calendar she hadn't been gone more than a few days, but she'd done had a baby and spent a month or more nursing him before her son had been ripped away from her. He would lead a rebellion and thwart the gods, it was a small price to pay to end them in whatever time he was. But still, Zef was sad. She'd never get to know him.
She should make a visit to Jaxen soon. But right now she wanted to tear him a new one and she couldn't exactly tell him he had a son, and that he'd been taken from them cause of some deal he made. When had he made it? It didn't matter, it was done.
And Jaxen still owed her a child. She sent him a text.
Meet up?
She didn't care when, or where, but she needed to give him ... she didn't know what but she had to see him. Angry sex was still good sex and probably he wouldn't even notice.
Zef picked up one device and held the cold metal in her hands, the gem staring up at her. "What the fuck are you?"
RE: What is this thing? - Zephyr - 12-27-2024
The cold metal in her hands reminded her of the place where she lost her boy. There was saddness but no tears. No sobs like a typical mother, she was not the typical person much less mother.
Jaxen's text pulled her from her thoughts.
You know when and where.
At least she knew what he meant. When and where. That was for later. The stupid thing was supposed to help her with her end goal. She wasn't sure what it was meant to do -- control a godling? how? Zef studied the object in her hand.
RE: What is this thing? - Jacob - 01-03-2025
Nox had been pulled away on a secret mission. It wasn't Atharim, but he left none-the-same. Jacob was concerned but even the hacker boy had gone with him so it had to be important it wasn't just a trip home for the sake of going home.
Jacob knocked on Zephyr's door. He'd tracked her down, it hadn't been hard. Not that her place of residence wasn't listed in the Atharim files. Which Jacob was still getting used to. He fumbled through the systems but found his way around sooner or later. He was no hacker that was for sure. His old fingers barely finding the right keys to type with. Clerical work had never been his thing.
The pendant hung against his chest under the shirt and Jacob wondered if the boy would take it if it was offered. Now that he was doing his job -- even if he required some clean up work. He still went after the dangerous ones.
The pettite woman opened the door looking depressed and underjoyed. "Jacob." She said moving aside to let him in.
"Has your cousin located our godling?"
Zef blinked at him as if he'd spoken a foreign language and shut the door behind him. "Hayden tells me that Nox got a text and he and the hacker went on a trip to the US. Hayden was unable to follow."
"Isn't that his job?"
Zef nodded pouring a second glass of wine and offering it to Jacob before nodding for him to sit and make himself at home. "When we have a job for him. He's not a detective."
Jacob nodded. "And he shouldn't be sleeping with the boy either. Yet he has done that." Jacob couldn't fault either of them, he'd probably done the same thing given the choices they had now. He'd never have done it when he was their age. Being with Noah had presented enough problems as it was. And Nox reminded him too much of the man he had loved for so many years. "We have no idea where he is, or what he's doing?"
Zef laughed. "You Americans are harder to track in your homeland than you are here."
"I suppose you are right, he'll come back. He has nothing back there." Jacob didn't think Nox would ever go back, he'd made a life here -- a real one. As he thought about doing the same Jacob noticed the pair of spider like jewels sitting on the coffee table. "What are these trinkets? They look mighty dangerous for such pretty things."