Finding Aurora

[Nox]

Ayden looked less than pleased. Aria was standing with her back to the other woman and Ayden couldn't see the smirk splaying on Aria's face. To feel what someone else did when they were so valiantly trying to hide it must be something else. But Ayden hadn't listened to what Aria had said and explained THEY would meet them there.

Aria had rolled her eyes but she let them walk out of the warehouse. The little pup was all a chitter as they left. He lept and bound and barked his own farewell. Nox shook his head, he wasn't feeling much better after his little display of weakness. Aria pushed on, and he could too. Life was full of bullshit, today was no different.

Ayden and Connor left and Aria stood staring at the man on the screen. "You gonna be okay doing this?"


Aria turned and looked at him with a nod. "I'll survive."


She didn't look like she would. The darkness was just behind those emerald pools of her eyes. Nox could see it shifting endlessly - wanting an out.

Aria nodded. "Let's go."


Nox grabbed his leather coat and and a hand gun from his things in his room and carefully hide it in a shoulder holster. Aria grabbed her swords. It felt odd carrying a gun with Aria. But this was not a time to be showing off. With Bas out there and others announcing themselves as god it wasn't safe to rely on his own power anymore. Shit! The world just kept tumbling down the can.

Nox didn't have to ask, he already knew Aria intended to be inside the building before Connor and Ayden met them at their coordinates. So they couldn't stop her. And it was a sad realization that Nox was okay with that - with letting Aria do whatever Aria would do to get the information from the man. He wanted to kill him if he was and Aria wouldn't let him near the man for his own sake. She'd made it abundantly clear when she told him to stay across the street and watch.

As they stood against the building Aria removed the pony tail from her raven hair and let her hair lie across her shoulders and back. Everything she did revealed a little bit more seduction about her. But it was subtle, not like the whores down the street from the warehouse. She was just not the warrior that she usually was. And all the .... Nox pushed the thoughts from his mind as Aria turned with a smirk and and soft laugh. "Hopefully he thinks the same."
Aria needed to get close and she knew exactly how a man would react - he'd only proved that.

Nox watched as Aria crossed the street and went into the building. Nox made himself look busy and uninterested in the world around him staring at his wallet and pretending that he was doing nothing out of the ordinary. They were using the comm system they always did, it was habit and this wasn't even a real mission. So Nox waited...