Following the White Rabbit

[Sage]

They were leaving? Sage pouted. He hadn't even found anything fun. Except that Cruz defended Nox's honor and Raffe was uncomfortable. The tech in the church was limited, and Sage really found nothing of use -- old phones with little connectivity weren't great for tracking. Triangulation was better these days but that was far more work than Sage had time for. But this man was a bit harder to find than most. A lovely challenge.

He couldn't send any feeds to his friend, nor could he retrieve anything from him. Sage sighed as he followed Cruz's ire with being misled or drawn in. "You are hardly a minnow, Cruz -- wielding Granddady's big bad inheritance as some sort of shield. Let's pretend you are just a normal college student who happened upon a strange coin in Manifesto. Someplace you shouldn't have been but you got in cause you know someone who knows someone. Not far from the truth. Pretend you are out with Nox and being a normal kid for once in your life. God knows we both need that. Not that he's normal by any means but he lives a far better life than we do. Your college buds try to show you the way. They are sleezy, and only there cause you have money."

Sage smiled at Ezekiel. "Don't mind him. He's an odd one." He rolled his eyes at Cruz's words mimicked back at Ezekiel. "What kind of reward, might he get for returning your amazing little trinket. I couldn't find much on it -- except that it leads you down here -- to you obviously. Beautiful craftsmanship too. Almost like you came from pirates."