Pass the Mic

[Nox]

Sara slapped his hand away giggling. Whatever. Nox kept smiling and didn't let it phase him. He didn't really care and he wasn't going to play the game tonight. If he really wanted it, he could easily find it, he was pretty sure he could just go home and get laid easily enough, though it wasn't a girl... and it wasn't easy. Nox sighed inwardly his life was fucking complicated.

Ivan came and sat down with them after a win asking about other games. Nox could have taken that in another way but again he really didn't want to play the game. Elsie, then Jay, then Sage... his luck was shit. Not that anything bad had essentially happened with Jay other than the fact he had walked out without really saying good-bye. But he couldn't fault him there. He would probably do the same thing, had done it on my occasions. Emily came to mind and that bit him in the ass on a few occasions - really didn't help matters that Cruz was dating her sister.

Sara called them with her, and since Nox had no where else to be he grabbed his bottle, shrugged at Ivan and followed the girl in the red dress. She lead us out on to a terrace. And what Nox saw was absolutely marvelous. The mechanic garden was breath taking and not just for it's inherent beauty but because it held potential. Sage would have a field day here. But he was pretty sure even that would get boring to the hacker. But it gave Nox ideas.

Nox drew up on his gift despite the memories. The pain spiraled from there but Nox didn't wince he was getting used to it as he had the pain of waking up with nightmares his whole life - the only difference these ones were while he was wake. Images so vivid he would never forget them. Nox was forming a weave of air to retrieve one of the mechanical bees to investigate when Sara asked for a light. And without a thought Nox held out his hand a small flickering flame appeared on it even as he split the flow and grabbed a wistful bee. The bee floated unnaturally to him and Nox turned his weave into a bubble of air that trapped the bee in front of him so he could examine it while it flew around in confinement. Nox tied of the weave so he could do the more complicated one and still hold the flame for Sara.

Nox bumped Ivan in the shoulder and showed Ivan the weave he'd seen Ascendancy use back in Siberia, the one he'd used to find the tiny little pendant that bothered him so much. But it was finer, more delicate as he poked it with the bee flying around. He wasn't going to find anything useful expect the metal inside, but it beat taking it a part. He was pretty sure the proprietor would be upset if he dismantled it.