What Not to Do (Kallisti)

[Sage]

Sage giggled. She thought he meant because of Jaxen. He removed his hand from her feet long enough to gesture to the stage. "Jaxen is not the circle in which you'd know me. I doubt Nox mentions me by name. How do you think he knew there were Atharim here? He's not that good." He grinned manically. "You probably don't know me. But I know you. I know everything about this club, and who works here. I know that Mr. Janssen is off in Paragon behind walls I cannot breach. I know that Miss Moon Pyre is getting an A in gross anatomy. And I am learning so much about you Oriena."

Sage leaned back putting both his hands behind his head and he smiled as he let himself drift into cyber space and the Kallisti's systems. The music cut off and then restarted. A single light behind the stage started to flicker in ones and zeros. It gave the effect of a strobe light but it began '0100001001100101011010000110111101101100011'.

It only took a moment before he got a text from Nox.

Stop playing with my fucking system!

Sage sat forward and grinned at the man who was completely involved at another table seemingly oblivious to what was going on behind him. The chatter on the comms had revealed his intrusion. Sage shot a text back, which Nox promptly looked with the same non-chalant glance he had before.

Then hurry up. I'm getting bored. So is Ori. He didn't know if she was, but she seemed the type to tire of them quickly.

The flickering had stopped when Nox had asked. Not because Nox could do anything to hurt him or kick him out. There was no real reason he had to do as he was asked. But Nox had good information, he had access to places Sage could only one day hope to hack into and gather intelligence. All the knowledge he had gained just from being friends with Aurora's little brother had been sweet. And he was always getting more. He smiled at Aiden and Oriena. "He says we are next on his list of stops." Not that either of them cared. But Nox was the only reason he was here.