Flying Solo

[Nox]

Nox sighed this was about the Atharim. It was always about the Atharim. His life was shit now because of the Atharim. Well not really, he liked his life, he liked being Atharim. He liked having this power too. He had no doubt that power could corrupt. He didn't doubt the teachings he'd learned. But he wasn't about to think he could get away with killing innocent people without trial either.

At least the man had the common decency to whisper as he jabbed the gun into his side. Nox looked at him, humor gone. He leaned in pressing the gun into his side even farther, he knew in that moment the shield wouldn't work, not at present, he was too close. It was untested. He would have to get Aria to help him test the weave. Nox whispered back. "I killed no innocent people. Others do, but I do not!"


It took him a little while to get the understanding that this man thought they were prey, they must have been attacked. Nox looked over at the girl again. "I take it she's been attacked before."
Nox took out his wallet and set it down on the table for the man to see. "I assure you I am not here to hunt you. I just came in to eat."


Nox took a spoonful of his soup. He wasn't trying to be patronizing, he really wasn't, yet the look in the guys eye said he thought he was being mocked. His loss, if he wanted to make a scene Nox could oblige him. "If you shoot me, you'll be no better than the Atharim. I've not killed an innocent in my life. I hunt monsters, you know the ones that walk the night to prey on humans."
Nox assumed he knew of the monsters if he knew about the Atharim. Something told him he knew more than he should.

"I can look up and see what information they have on your fiance. But that means you'll have to trust me."
Nox took another spoonful of the soup, if it were not for the gun pressed into his side, he might have actually enjoyed it.