12-15-2017, 10:46 AM
Dorian watched as Nox's anger with how Ivan handled things grew into a fury. Ivan was impetuous. He was spontaneous. He was causing the boy to have a coronary. Nox had laid out the perimeter in minute detail. He knew where every trap was, he had a hacker monitoring his security system. Sadly, Sage was also ill and caused problems as well. Nox knew every nook and cranny of the estate. And Ivan just introduced not one but three unknown variables to Nox's precious calculations.
Ivan wanted to take Alex and Calvin inside. Nox had already insisted we remove anyone Dorian didn't trust from his staff, and now they were letting two near complete strangers and cops into his sanctuary. Dorian knew he had all the right reasons. And honestly if Alex or Calvin and even Ivan knew the things that Nox and and he did for their cause. They would arrest them both without fail.
When Ivan said they weren't Atharim, Dorian wasn't quite so sure. Nox was born Atharim. He'd chosen the path himself, but Nox knew nothing else. He always hunted monsters. Killing men and women because they were a danger was not foreign to him. Dorian had seen his profile before he'd lost access too the servers. He was a good hunter. He had mostly monster kills under his belt but there were a few wolfkin and sentients. Humans who had caused problems to the point that the Atharim had no choice but to kill them. Dorian knew they ate at the boy, but he did his job. He was still Atharim. He would be Atharim till the day he died. Dorian was a father first and foremost.
"Before you decide know that Nox and I are Atharim, we will always be Atharim. The moral compass doesn't tilt in the same direction as yours. I am a corrupt cop. I am paid to look the other direction by a secret organization and I do so willingly and knowingly. I have steered cases away from Atharim. I have not followed promising leads. I have done things in the name of the Atharim because what the Atharim do is important. There is nothing in this world that will ever make me change my mind. I wasn't born into this like Nox was. I choose it. I choose to be this person. My son changes one thing and one thing only - I will not let them kill my son, or my wife and our family we've built here. I am Atharim. Because they hunt me does not change what I am. If the laws change and the laws will change now that the Ascendancy has revealed gods, and their powers to the world. And with them the Atharim. When they change to find us and try us for our past transgressions you all become accomplices in all that we do from this moment forward. Stay if you think we will win this war, but if you doubt we are in a war then you need to walk now."
Ivan wanted to take Alex and Calvin inside. Nox had already insisted we remove anyone Dorian didn't trust from his staff, and now they were letting two near complete strangers and cops into his sanctuary. Dorian knew he had all the right reasons. And honestly if Alex or Calvin and even Ivan knew the things that Nox and and he did for their cause. They would arrest them both without fail.
When Ivan said they weren't Atharim, Dorian wasn't quite so sure. Nox was born Atharim. He'd chosen the path himself, but Nox knew nothing else. He always hunted monsters. Killing men and women because they were a danger was not foreign to him. Dorian had seen his profile before he'd lost access too the servers. He was a good hunter. He had mostly monster kills under his belt but there were a few wolfkin and sentients. Humans who had caused problems to the point that the Atharim had no choice but to kill them. Dorian knew they ate at the boy, but he did his job. He was still Atharim. He would be Atharim till the day he died. Dorian was a father first and foremost.
"Before you decide know that Nox and I are Atharim, we will always be Atharim. The moral compass doesn't tilt in the same direction as yours. I am a corrupt cop. I am paid to look the other direction by a secret organization and I do so willingly and knowingly. I have steered cases away from Atharim. I have not followed promising leads. I have done things in the name of the Atharim because what the Atharim do is important. There is nothing in this world that will ever make me change my mind. I wasn't born into this like Nox was. I choose it. I choose to be this person. My son changes one thing and one thing only - I will not let them kill my son, or my wife and our family we've built here. I am Atharim. Because they hunt me does not change what I am. If the laws change and the laws will change now that the Ascendancy has revealed gods, and their powers to the world. And with them the Atharim. When they change to find us and try us for our past transgressions you all become accomplices in all that we do from this moment forward. Stay if you think we will win this war, but if you doubt we are in a war then you need to walk now."