Preparations

[Nox]

Of course, Ayden knew Emily. It had to be the way of it. Since coming to Moscow his world had gotten smaller and smaller. He had met the Ascendancy himself, something he could never have even dreamed of in the States. Here life was a cornucopia of so many good and soooo many bad things. Aria was still incommunicado, Aurora was missing, the world was just going to hell and back since he got here. He wondered if it had to do with his new friends, or the fact that the Atharim in the old world was so much more complicated than back home. Not that it was anything like a home to him at any point in life at least not since his mother passed away. A shadow crossed Nox's face at the memories, but he quickly pushed it all away. These people didn't need to see the direction his life had taken. He grinned and put on that smug look that people so often hated about him.

Nox blinked at the name offered, he would not know how to even repeat it much less remember it, but it was Ayden's words and her gesture that had him worried. Ayden knew what he was and she was sitting here threatening him. He pulled his arm free of her grasp. "Why on God's Green Earth would I hurt Emily? She's a good girl. And she's safe at home now."
He hoped she understood what he meant, he wasn't about to spout Atharim status out on the street. But Emily was safe from the Atharim, he'd insure it if he could. She was a good girl, and she didn't need the bad news that seemed to follow him everywhere he went. One day they'd find out what he was, but he prayed it wasn't any day soon.

He turned to their new friend and offered his hand. "Nox Durante. And this little Duckling is the soon to be Mrs. Connor Kent."