01-13-2025, 05:47 PM
Hayden smirked. "You don't need me, I'll be here every fucking morning if Nox is cooking. A week of breakfast with him. And dinner. And on a tiny little burner with a tiny little fridge. He went grocery shopping every morning on his runs so he could eat right. Anal and pedantic maybe, but holy fuck..."
Hayden made sure Elyse had enough to eat "More?"
He sighed. "That's the thing about cultish organizations. Sometimes the dogma is too engrained in people. I'll be 100% honest with you. My job here is to clean up Nox's messes. Not to be his friend. Or listen to his woes and issues. My job is to make him trust me so he tells me things. And before you go run off to tell him. He knows. He knew from the moment he met me what I was and why I there. He kept the fact that he was a god from me while he was in London. It wasn't until I started following him around the world that I figured out why they'd sent him instead of someone more reliable."
Hayden started cleaning up the cooking mess. Anal and pendantic about his healthy eating wasn't the only thing Nox was anal and pedantic about. I came here because Nox asked me to. But I won't press or talk about it again unless you want it. I imagine there is a lot more going on up there. I'll listen. But you gotta want to talk to me knowing everything you do. It won't go back to the Atharim, and it won't go to Nox unless you are really trying to kill yourself, then I'm shouting that to the world to help you."
Hayden made sure Elyse had enough to eat "More?"
He sighed. "That's the thing about cultish organizations. Sometimes the dogma is too engrained in people. I'll be 100% honest with you. My job here is to clean up Nox's messes. Not to be his friend. Or listen to his woes and issues. My job is to make him trust me so he tells me things. And before you go run off to tell him. He knows. He knew from the moment he met me what I was and why I there. He kept the fact that he was a god from me while he was in London. It wasn't until I started following him around the world that I figured out why they'd sent him instead of someone more reliable."
Hayden started cleaning up the cooking mess. Anal and pendantic about his healthy eating wasn't the only thing Nox was anal and pedantic about. I came here because Nox asked me to. But I won't press or talk about it again unless you want it. I imagine there is a lot more going on up there. I'll listen. But you gotta want to talk to me knowing everything you do. It won't go back to the Atharim, and it won't go to Nox unless you are really trying to kill yourself, then I'm shouting that to the world to help you."