Stone Cold

[Ilesha]

She shook her head. "No, the hacker is not my friend, he's a friend of a friend's coworker. I hardly know the guy." Ilesha laughed. "As odd as it sounds, but the girls at a burlesque club kinda teach other girls how to use their ability. A girl I met once sent me their way and it's uncformtable but I learn a lot. Their head of security is one of you -- being both a channeler and Atharim. He has the hacker friend. And he followed me home, told him where I lived and he told Juls, who told me to watch out. I know nothing more than your order as you put it hunt us and that I should be careful. Though the only people whom I've met of these so-called scarey people have all been Channelers. Though Nox has been hunted by a few I'm told which is why Kallisti has a perimeter around it that drones hunt."

Ilesha knew she was rambling but it was hard to stop "I can't imagine anyone stupid enough to hunt Nox. Besides the Ascendancy, I can't imagine anyone more powerful -- not in strength, but in pure imagination and flexibility and his knowledge of the power. And he inspires so much in others -- Did you know ..." Ilesha wanted to tell him about healing the severing -- but that was probably a government secret now -- and probably something the Atharim didn't need to know. "That you could combine powers with someone else?" Ilesha wasn't sure she could teach it, but the club could certainly "I mean it wasn't him who found it out but he was the reason someone tried."