05-18-2015, 04:45 PM
As Elias previously consumed the now infamous tuna, he had no interest in jerky. He declined with a wave of the hand.
He moved closer to the fire himself since the warm bubble of air had dissipated. Elyse introduced herself, and Elias almost forgot how they treated him before the naked guy showed up. She reminded him of Sarah, the good and the bad. He looked away. He had more important matters to puzzle out than a random girl.
The name Jaxen Marveet meant nothing to Elias, although the man seemed to suggest that it should. If he was an actor or athlete, Eli was oblivious. If he was someone important to government, neither did he recognize. They learned the names of Custody leaders in high school, but of the few he recalled, none were related to a Marveet. Otherwise, he'd not been in Moscow long enough to absorb news of Custody celebrities, even in passing. He couldn't care less. He barely learned the names of people he saw on a daily basis.
More interestingly, Jaxen was kidnapped. A suspicious coincidence that someone obviously in the public eye was left for dead along the river. Was something meant to kill him? Or was he some kind of bait to lure something out of the water? Either question felt like a dead end. Eli had been powercrafting for a while today and not so much as a ripple disturbed the river's surface. He went to pull out his uncle's wallet to check for activity as Jaxen asked for one.
He sighed and brought it out. "Here,"
he offered the device. "Just.. be careful with it."
He added, tone stern. It was clearly a different grade wallet than the typical guy on the street might carry. More importantly, it was his only link to his uncle's work. Until Victoria University discovered the account and deactivated it, Eli depended on the technology to find the reason his uncle was murdered.
He moved closer to the fire himself since the warm bubble of air had dissipated. Elyse introduced herself, and Elias almost forgot how they treated him before the naked guy showed up. She reminded him of Sarah, the good and the bad. He looked away. He had more important matters to puzzle out than a random girl.
The name Jaxen Marveet meant nothing to Elias, although the man seemed to suggest that it should. If he was an actor or athlete, Eli was oblivious. If he was someone important to government, neither did he recognize. They learned the names of Custody leaders in high school, but of the few he recalled, none were related to a Marveet. Otherwise, he'd not been in Moscow long enough to absorb news of Custody celebrities, even in passing. He couldn't care less. He barely learned the names of people he saw on a daily basis.
More interestingly, Jaxen was kidnapped. A suspicious coincidence that someone obviously in the public eye was left for dead along the river. Was something meant to kill him? Or was he some kind of bait to lure something out of the water? Either question felt like a dead end. Eli had been powercrafting for a while today and not so much as a ripple disturbed the river's surface. He went to pull out his uncle's wallet to check for activity as Jaxen asked for one.
He sighed and brought it out. "Here,"
he offered the device. "Just.. be careful with it."
He added, tone stern. It was clearly a different grade wallet than the typical guy on the street might carry. More importantly, it was his only link to his uncle's work. Until Victoria University discovered the account and deactivated it, Eli depended on the technology to find the reason his uncle was murdered.