Kintsugi

[Nox]

Nox knew where he was. Sage had been through in his facts. But Nox nodded in thanks. "I knew he was taken care of. It's just another broken promise." The more he talked the more he hated himself and he resigned himself to follow Ezekiel through the church and outside to the steps to sit down for a smoke.

Nox shook his head at the offer. "No thanks.". Smoking had never been a thing, drug or tobacco or anything else. The thought made his blood curdle a little, his lungs would rebel and make a fool if he even tried to make it look cool. Which it was not. "And what would you say? And if he spoke, would you even tell me? You don't know me. For all you know I'm just an asshole who's using your friend, as you say he has friends here." Nox smirked and sat down and stared out into the street. "Raffe has friends here. You specifically, otherwise why come make sure Sage and Cruz hadn't fucked up my chances. He has to have some pull. I thank you for taking care of him. He might need a lot more of that."

Nox couldn't sit still so he stood up and paced back and forth. It was part of nervous habits. Not that he was worried about anything in particular, but sitting still left an itch in his skin he couldn't scratch. And the horde gnawed to be free. Do something it urged, it didn't care what just something, so he walked the edge of a step like a balance beam arms wide stretched. "Last time I met someone's friend they tried to kill me." Nox laughed at the memory of the fucking weapon he'd taken from Aria pointed at him by Yun Kao. "But sure, make the arrangements, Raffe or Sage knows how to get in contact with me." Nox didn't offer his contact information as he continued.

"Morgan's bunny must be infused with anxiety herbs or smelling salts or something. They help her sleep at night, nightmare free. Something I can totally get behind. She hit me in the face with it and something in there calmed the horde. Not like a sedation, more like it didn't want to be around it. Freed my mind enough I could wrestle back control without the power to hold it back. It's not perfect. The right trigger could set me off. I imagine it's something Raffe grows in his bedroom window cill, it's always felt safer, calmer in there. Even before we were more than friends."

Nox sighed. "I talk too much. Normally I'd say that with a bit more flirting since the only two people I talk to I'd flirt with." He missed Thalia wished she wasn't off on her own adventures so he'd have someplace else to escape to where someone wouldn't have to choose a side. Nox looked back towards the cavernous doors and the escaped twins. "I should probably go rescue Raffe from his abduction." He grinned as he pulled the landwarriors out from his hoodie pocket and slipped them on and started up the mapping software. There was a route here, otherwise the girls wouldn't have fled off into the depths of the church to find their exit.