Negotiations

[Sage]

Smiling is good. Dancing is better.

Aurora used to tell me that every night after a hunt, they'd have a little dance party. Just the three of them. Their dad was always out drinking with the other gentlemen. It wasn't a thing they did to celebrate. It was a thing they did so Nox didn't crash.

I know you don't feel like it. I know it's gonna take a spoon or two to do it. But Dancing creates the good chemicals that your body needs right now. You can only fake having a good time until you either give up or you start having one.

I'll dance with you.


The next text is a feed of Sage in his frigid server room where he was doing all his work while Aiden as at play somewhere else in the house. The little black and white feed had Sage flailing around like a mad man in the small space he had. There was no rhythm and there was no specialized chorography. Just Sage moving to the same song currently playing on Elyse's wallet. He looked up at the camera with a grin and waved his hands for her to join him.