11-17-2022, 10:04 PM
Cruz watched Sage drift into his zone ignorant of what the man had implied by his meaning. "He doesn't mean you should go back into the darkness. He likes having people on the grid -- the more the merrier." Cruz said. "His good authority can clear the monsters if you are being bothered by them. Raffe knows how to get ahold of him. He's one man. Can't be everywhere at once. And he doesn't even charge the good folks a fee. Can't beat that." Cruz said sarcastically.
But the attention turned to the coin and Cruz felt more inclined to talk about its mystery than about what Nox could do to thwart the monsters in the underground. "It's not worth much. Can't imagine there is much of a reward. It was a mystery to solve which just took my friends knowing the right people to find the right place. It wasn't just lying on the ground where I found it. Someone stuffed it in a high crevice in the men's bathroom of Manifesto. Hardly a place to stash the unimportant. It has all the marks of a calling card -- a mystery to be solved." Cruz placed it on the palm of the man's hand with a smile. "Mystery solved. If unsatisfactorily. I imagine not many of my kind find your trinkets. But then not many of my kind have friends who slink around in the tunnels killing monsters as their so-called calling in life." For as much as this man thought he was looked down upon by the rich and prosperous, Cruz felt the same thing like this man was looking down on him because he had it handed to him. Cruz tried not to let the conversation turn towards that, tried to reign his father's and grandfather's worlds into the reality of things. "I'm not here to cause problems. Curiosity killed the cat. And let's say I was curious why someone might stuff an ancient yet not ancient looking coin in a hole in the wall waiting for someone to pluck it from it's confines. There's no message. And in manifesto, maybe it's a joke, or a track to lure the unsuspecting to rob and pilfer their corpses." Cruz looked around and smiled. "I may not be my friend, but I'm not completely defenseless."
But the attention turned to the coin and Cruz felt more inclined to talk about its mystery than about what Nox could do to thwart the monsters in the underground. "It's not worth much. Can't imagine there is much of a reward. It was a mystery to solve which just took my friends knowing the right people to find the right place. It wasn't just lying on the ground where I found it. Someone stuffed it in a high crevice in the men's bathroom of Manifesto. Hardly a place to stash the unimportant. It has all the marks of a calling card -- a mystery to be solved." Cruz placed it on the palm of the man's hand with a smile. "Mystery solved. If unsatisfactorily. I imagine not many of my kind find your trinkets. But then not many of my kind have friends who slink around in the tunnels killing monsters as their so-called calling in life." For as much as this man thought he was looked down upon by the rich and prosperous, Cruz felt the same thing like this man was looking down on him because he had it handed to him. Cruz tried not to let the conversation turn towards that, tried to reign his father's and grandfather's worlds into the reality of things. "I'm not here to cause problems. Curiosity killed the cat. And let's say I was curious why someone might stuff an ancient yet not ancient looking coin in a hole in the wall waiting for someone to pluck it from it's confines. There's no message. And in manifesto, maybe it's a joke, or a track to lure the unsuspecting to rob and pilfer their corpses." Cruz looked around and smiled. "I may not be my friend, but I'm not completely defenseless."