You're a Wizard

[Sage]

There were too many people. Too many voices, too many things happening all at once. The power of the drugs he was on had since faded and Sage had known going in that there would be a lot of people at the concert. Nox had left them to be the hero - always the hero - always fighting things that go bump in the night. Saving the world...

Cruz was younger, but he was stable, he helped Sage home despite the idea Nox had planted in their heads to have a good time. Sage just wanted to go home - to his bed. But he had no home - no bed to call his own. Brian had trashed that life. Phaser no longer existed. Sage no longer existed...

The basement was cold. It was home. It reminded him of the server room minus the freezing chill to keep the server safe and the hum of the powerful machine. Sage missed his home. Missed his life. He missed information... it called just out of reach. He could access it with his fingertips but now it was gone - lost to his mind. Sage felt lost.

Christian offered his unused room - the cool basement air, the silence of the world around. All except Nova who was now scratching at the door at the sounds coming from the other side. Sage rubbed his eyes as he crawled out of the sheets that were not his own. He opened the door of a room he was only a guest. Nova shot out, eager to see his master. Sage could hear the taunting of his friend. But he was still bleary eyed from sleep when he stepped on to the rubber floor and put his hand on the shoulder in front of him. He was about to tell Nox to keep it down, but Sage found himself on the ground and a knee in his shoulder.

Sleep was gone. Fear replaced it. Panic replaced it. The world turned black in fear, he didn't know the face that stared down at him. Sage had a vague recollection, he reached for the processor out of habit and the emptiness of it's state left Sage cringing from loss. He was cut off from everything he'd ever known.

The stranger got up and left Sage lying on the floor dazed and confused. Nox knelt down next to him but his eyes never left the strangers. A quick glance down at Sage as Nox took his hand to help Sage upwas all the look he got from his friend before he asked. "You alright?"


Sage didn't answer he didn't know how to answer. He didn't even shake his head. He didn't really know what was going on, what the hell had just happened... But the one person who could ask was busy saving someone else's life.