Rerouted

[Nox]

Nox blinked at the lights outside. He's listened to his footsteps echoing in the corridors. He'd counted and kept track of his movements. It had been a game with Aurora. She laughed in his head at how their games had come in handy. Aurora was much more his teacher than his mother or father ever had been. She'd been his life line. She was gone and in the emptiness of the city he'd been thrown back to he was about to kill the only other person that ever made the connection for him. An order from Ascendancy himself.

Nox picked up his things and turned to look at the steal door he'd been thrown from. It opened to a nondescript building far from the Kremlin. Nox idly wondered if it was the same door Aria had used to infiltrate Ascendancy's residence. It always came back to Aria...

Nox wasn't usually one to follow the rules. But he wondered what he was supposed to do after he killed Aria? The Ascendancy said that was his "first and only thing." He sighed and started walking down the street. He'd have to go visit Sage. He had no resources to hunt down Aria anymore. The Atharim burned him days ago. It was hard to believe it was only days.

Nox wasn't exactly sure how he was going to keep out of the police's hair with the Atharim hunting him. They were bound to attack. And he wasn't going to just roll over and play dead. But at least he was free. It wasn't for several more blocks that Nox even tried to reach for the power and when it came easily without any sliding through his fingers. It had come into his hands with practiced force and Nox smiled. It felt good. He was going to need it before he found Aria. He might need a drink or twenty after that. Shit he really was going to do this. He was going to hunt Aria.