A Little Day Drinking

[Sage]

Sage was pretty sure Elyse was not so comfortable with the whole assassin thing.  I mean who hired someone to kill them?  Except this wasn't at all like that. If she'd been all on board he'd never told her he'd gotten Nox involved.  But there was also no one going to stop Nox from taking out a threat to Kallisti.

Sage sent a series of texts messages with a thought. Faster than anyone should be able to type.

I can be intermediary. But the assassin I'm talking about is Nox. That's kinda what he does now for the Atharim and the Ascendancy. Kills channelers he deems worthy of being taken out -- no innocents.

But what's more important is you are family. You are part of Kallisti and there is nothing Nox wouldn't do to protect his family.

You want your father dead, Nox will do it.

You don't even have to ask him. He doesn't even have to know you know. I can almost guarantee you as soon as he reads that report he will be setting a plan to take him out first thing he's back in Moscow.

And he will read that report.

We can Kill Elyse, or I can erase every record of you in the Atharim, with your parents dead there won't be anyone really to stake a claim that you even existed at all.  I've done it before. I can do it again.

But you are associated with Kallisti and Nox and he won't come off their radar. He's too dangerous -- even more since he made a deal to work with them again. They don't really understand the deal they made yet. Letting me into their system unfetted.

Nox made you a promise to keep you safe. He will always keep it. And I'll help.

And don't be terrified. Nox is good at what he does. And he has the ear of the most powerful man on the planet.