What Not to Do (Kallisti)

[Sage]

There was far more entertainment here than that of just the show. Jaxen had come and outed himself. Aiden was a man of mystery and wonder and even Dimitri knew the press was already leaking rumors and suggestions. A slow smile spread over Sages lips even as Nox went on about the Atharim and keeping their hands and feet and special gifts to themselves. Sage had no intention of doing such a thing.

The network at Kallisti was already his. He'd hacked it eons ago when Nox had moved in. From there he could see from every camera in every room and every feed was his. His facial recognition software ran on his wallet while he identified every soul in the building. Atharim flagged. Gods on the Atharim's lists that Nox had last acquired before his access was revoked were flagged. Supporters of the Ascendancy. Allies and friends, foes and neutral parties. Sage knew every face in the building by the time his scan was finished.

The important bits were brought to his attention especially the one reporter who made the latest snippet of news about Aiden. Any about Nox that hit the internet superhighway would also flag Sage's direct attention instead of sitting idle in his bin of collected information. Anomalies like the girl Nox asked him to initially track down were flagged as well. People with no paperwork or internet trails were likely Atharim. And if they weren't snakes they were hiding something and that meant information... glorious fucking information.

The reporter who outed Jaxen and Aiden first found herself the subject of her own little featurette inside of Aiden's transcribed article. A torrid affair easily found in the history of the security footage Sage had compiled from various places. His network might not be b0rg status anymore, but his network was wide and only growing wider. The server in Aiden's home soon would be finished and he could hack anything he wanted any place in Moscow -- except the Kremlin -- Nox might put him down for breaching the Ascendancy's sanctum again. And Sage didn't want to disappoint his only real friend.