Runaway Train

[Nox]

Success. In the confines of lock up he waited and wove and rested and wove and he managed to do a simple water orb inverted and backwards. Trial successful but how reliable? He'd have to get better at backwards. But some of the weaves he used were very complex, he'd never remember them backwards -- it was hard enough forwards. But he knew with practice he could do it. And his note would pay off if he could ever get back to his laptop.

Which happened more hours than Nox could count later. All CCTV footage showed the fight, nothing more than two men running into each other, tumbling around and the other man losing his footing. An accident. Self defense. No charges pressed as what remained of the body identified him as a stowaway as well as the theif. All stolen items were still on his person.

Police: 1, Theif: 0

But Nox didn't really care, he was just glad to be back in his seat with his laptop drawing out a light weave in a 3D program Aurora had created for the purposes of rendering out maps and rooms to find the best possible solutions to the visual problem. And this was a visual problem.

It was a simple weave forwards. And it was a simple weave backwards. But if you can't see it how do you know if it's right?

Finishing a weave backwards could end poorly -- like any other experiment Nox might have done when he first started learning. So he just didn't finish the weaves as he started practicing while he could see them. End to Start, release. End to start, release. over and over ad nauseum until he felt that he could do the weave without looking at the diagram in front of him. This way it wasn't tiring. Twisting it took effort and work and made remembering the backwards difficult. But it worked.

Nox replicated the light three times with inverted weaves. Three success in a row. He'd found the ticket -- too bad it wasn't really helpful until he could kill without being seen but that was still progress. And that made him happy. So very happy!