06-06-2018, 05:59 PM
With her decline, Scion gently returned the two water goblets to the keep of a server. He couldn't allow her to depart, though. Questions remained. The correction of her surname from Grey to Northbrook implied the proper tones of a dutiful daughter of the Custody. It wasn't enough, though. He needed more. Waging a war against one of Ascendancy's closest and supposedly trusted soldiers would be dangerous.
He shrugged like the dismissal left no wound. He did call after the girl, however. "The people in this room are far more dangerous than the downtrodden waiting in the soup lines of the Red Cross. If I noticed your association with a particular american, others will have as well. While I only have the best interests of the Ascendancy - and by extension, the Custody - at heart, I must express some concern. We true-born Custody loyals cannot allow any threats close to the Ascendancy to go unchecked, especially when those threats embody the detonator you so aptly mocked."
His eyes roamed their surroundings, and Scion spared a slim smile for a nearby man he recognized. "A friendly piece of advice, Miss Northbrook,"
he said between a cool smile, "The calmest waters hide the most ferocious predators."
His gaze flicked around them symbolically. "Navigating those waters with a guide can be helpful,"
he paused, implying himself as such a guide. "If you have insight into splintered loyalties of those closest to our Ascendancy, and such insight prevents future betrayal, it could atone for a great debt."
Edited by Jaxen Marveet, Jun 6 2018, 09:53 PM.
He shrugged like the dismissal left no wound. He did call after the girl, however. "The people in this room are far more dangerous than the downtrodden waiting in the soup lines of the Red Cross. If I noticed your association with a particular american, others will have as well. While I only have the best interests of the Ascendancy - and by extension, the Custody - at heart, I must express some concern. We true-born Custody loyals cannot allow any threats close to the Ascendancy to go unchecked, especially when those threats embody the detonator you so aptly mocked."
His eyes roamed their surroundings, and Scion spared a slim smile for a nearby man he recognized. "A friendly piece of advice, Miss Northbrook,"
he said between a cool smile, "The calmest waters hide the most ferocious predators."
His gaze flicked around them symbolically. "Navigating those waters with a guide can be helpful,"
he paused, implying himself as such a guide. "If you have insight into splintered loyalties of those closest to our Ascendancy, and such insight prevents future betrayal, it could atone for a great debt."
Edited by Jaxen Marveet, Jun 6 2018, 09:53 PM.