02-24-2026, 02:18 AM
Ivan liked the Detective. She didnt bristle at his suggestion even though it exposed an assumption she had made. He didnt much respect people who couldn't admit they were wrong or incorrect. She might have a future at Domovoi. They were always looking for more recruits, as the number of these cases seemed to being growing constantly.
The video evidence was fairly clear and Ivan felt a jolt of excitement. This wass why he was a detective. He liked puzzles. He liked solving them. He wasn't really a reader for fun. Not that he was bad at it. He could read a textbook or follow an argument. But reading fiction was just never something he chose to do.
All of which to say, he never actually read Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes novels. Buy watched the shit out of them. He loved a good mystery and often competed to see if he could figure it out before the end.
So, a mistake creature. It DID remind him of the things from the Ball. He shuddered at the memory. It had been chaos, then. Later, during his one on one training with Ascendancy, he had learned more. Ijiraq. He wasn't sure exactly what they were. But he remembered what they did. They fed on the power flowing through a channeler.
A spike of ice formed in his gut. Ascendancy had taken a direct hit. It was terrible to behold.
But how to kill. He remembered. [color=gold"]"They are creatures that somehow feed on channellers. They just suck the power through the person until they die."[/color] His voice softened. "You can't use the power on them. Not directly. And weapons don't normally work. But....they can solidfy with cold. Freezing them. They can be shattered.
The video evidence was fairly clear and Ivan felt a jolt of excitement. This wass why he was a detective. He liked puzzles. He liked solving them. He wasn't really a reader for fun. Not that he was bad at it. He could read a textbook or follow an argument. But reading fiction was just never something he chose to do.
All of which to say, he never actually read Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes novels. Buy watched the shit out of them. He loved a good mystery and often competed to see if he could figure it out before the end.
So, a mistake creature. It DID remind him of the things from the Ball. He shuddered at the memory. It had been chaos, then. Later, during his one on one training with Ascendancy, he had learned more. Ijiraq. He wasn't sure exactly what they were. But he remembered what they did. They fed on the power flowing through a channeler.
A spike of ice formed in his gut. Ascendancy had taken a direct hit. It was terrible to behold.
But how to kill. He remembered. [color=gold"]"They are creatures that somehow feed on channellers. They just suck the power through the person until they die."[/color] His voice softened. "You can't use the power on them. Not directly. And weapons don't normally work. But....they can solidfy with cold. Freezing them. They can be shattered.