02-11-2015, 01:04 PM
Nikolai was ill at ease. He'd shoved his mask high on his forehead, face hot inside the sweltering car. Perhaps ill-at-ease was misconstrued. He was frustrated. The planted power-user was dead and an entire family was slaughtered by a monster. Truly bothersome was the behavior he'd witnessed between man and beast. The scars on his arm itched to investigate.
"Is there any sort of internet signal?"
He asked of the driver.
"Not inside the city, sir," was the reply. Nikolai guessed as much. "Is there something I can arrange for you?" He went on to ask. Nik pulled the charm from a pocket, studying the symbol in the dim lights of the car dashboard. Memento mori was Latin. That much he remembered. Mori was likely a derivative of morior, a word reflecting death. In high school and law school he studied multiple languages, but the phrase itself was lost to distant memory.
"No. Carry on. How far are we from the next user?"
He'd do his own research when back among modern civilization. He'd rarely given more than a passing thought to the underworld crawling beneath the surface of society, but now, consider his curiosity piqued.
He needed to remain focused, for now. These users were nothing compared to his own greatness, but they were not inert.
"Is there any sort of internet signal?"
He asked of the driver.
"Not inside the city, sir," was the reply. Nikolai guessed as much. "Is there something I can arrange for you?" He went on to ask. Nik pulled the charm from a pocket, studying the symbol in the dim lights of the car dashboard. Memento mori was Latin. That much he remembered. Mori was likely a derivative of morior, a word reflecting death. In high school and law school he studied multiple languages, but the phrase itself was lost to distant memory.
"No. Carry on. How far are we from the next user?"
He'd do his own research when back among modern civilization. He'd rarely given more than a passing thought to the underworld crawling beneath the surface of society, but now, consider his curiosity piqued.
He needed to remain focused, for now. These users were nothing compared to his own greatness, but they were not inert.