11-21-2021, 04:47 AM
The people who arrived were apparently acquaintances of Nox. The tension ratcheted up higher. He felt irritation skitter across his mind and shot him a glare that, after a moment, he decided to let remain. It was justified. The man had invited the Ascendancy, a Consul and two Rods of Dominion down into the tunnels and hadn't bothered to let any of them know that he had also asked members of the Atharim to join them? He flicked a look to Ascendancy before it returned to Nox. Was the man a moron? "Is there a reason you invited avowed enemies and didn't deign to let any of us know?"
He was about to say more when he felt vibration on one of the threads of spirit that extended down the tunnels. It was just a moment- and it stopped immediately. He raised his voice, threads of compressed air to conduct and fire as energy to amplify the vibration over the chatter as he spun and stepped toward in the direction of one of the tunnels. "They're coming." He listened over the spirit and with his ears, straining. Nothing. "Something is out there", he said, voice normal but no less tense.
He was about to say more when he felt vibration on one of the threads of spirit that extended down the tunnels. It was just a moment- and it stopped immediately. He raised his voice, threads of compressed air to conduct and fire as energy to amplify the vibration over the chatter as he spun and stepped toward in the direction of one of the tunnels. "They're coming." He listened over the spirit and with his ears, straining. Nothing. "Something is out there", he said, voice normal but no less tense.