Last Stop

[Nox]

"I do."
He knew first hand because he was one, but he wasn't about to put that out there for anyone to just hear who was standing by watching the same broadcast.

Dane ordered another drink and Nox followed close behind with a wave of his hand. He didn't intend to get drunk, but one beer just wasn't going to cut through the shit that had just fallen in his lap. At least the drink would fuzz his mind but he needed to distract himself.

The clap on his back brought Nox back from his thoughts of doom. But the words that came from his mouth sent a shiver down his spine. Wishing his brother dead. Dangerous man, he played a dangerous game.

Nox turned to watch his companion. Who the fuck was he getting involved with? He wasn't sure he liked the tone in which he claimed he was dangerous. Nox knew exactly how dangerous they could be. He knew because he could do a great amount of damage if he so choose to.

As if the thought egged him on, Nox was grabbing the power and stretching tendrils out into the ground. He'd seen Ascendancy doing it. But Nox really had no objective in mind. The power just flowed from him into the earth. He knew he was dangerous. Aria knew he was dangerous. She kept him in check and he her. It was the nature of their partnership. And now she was not here and the power called to him. The earth called to him.

Ascendancy had been looking for something. He'd only caught a glimpse of the pendant he'd found, but that wasn't what Nox felt, he didn't want to look for something. He could feel each of the threads pulling and twisting. The power was distracting, he finished off the weave and the power winked out as the ground shook beneath them.

Nox smiled as the vibrations subsided and he could hear alarms of various sorts going off. Hopefully his distraction hadn't caused any major damage - or deaths. He hadn't meant to do it, but then maybe he had, their games had been a good distraction. Now he needed that distraction more than he needed to drink.

Nox knew he should care more about the man sitting next to him. Find out who he was, but he already had a bad feeling he already knew. That nagging feeling had been with him since he'd met him. And Nox didn't believe in coincidence - he didn't believe in fate. But it would put icing on the cake if this was the one man he truly did not want to meet in Mexico. It would be no problem using his wallet and looking up the photo of Dane Gregory to ease his mind. To say that he had better taste in friends than Aria. But then he'd truly be fucked, so ignorance was bliss. Nox didn't want to know. If only Ascendancy had chosen another time to let the man next to him announce just how dangerous he truly was - Nox could have gone on living in said bliss.

Nox downed the second beer then asked Dane. "Where were we before we got rudely interrupted by real life?"