07-12-2016, 11:50 AM
The guys at Tony's house spoke of nothing else except the Ascendany's announcement. Of course none of them were registering. They feared how the information will be used. Neither was the group in need of protection. Elias was less worried about government conspiracies but he valued his privacy.
Yet he remained quiet when asked his opinion. Instead, he mulled over his memories of Sickness and the manifestation of his power. Those first few months, he had always been near the ocean when the strongest effects were unleashed. For that, and for the vitality he felt, he yearned to return to New Zealand. In Moscow, he was withering again. Much as he had in Utah.
The Ascendancy was like him. Powerful and private. For those reasons, Elias empathized the instinct to hold secrets close. However, now that the cat was out of the bag, rather than retreat to shadows, the urge to proclaim himself twitched his skin with defiance.
Crowds gathered in the Red Square. People demanding to see the Ascendancy. Protestors and adoring public alike. The CCD did not take kindly to protesting. For while the economy was the freest of all free markets, liberty was quite limited. Kremlin police watched close, shadows of armed guards paced the top of the Kremlin walls.
He left Tony's without saying where he was going. A shard of blackness billowing through the crowd, Elias elbowed his way closer to the gates of the Kremlin.
Yet he remained quiet when asked his opinion. Instead, he mulled over his memories of Sickness and the manifestation of his power. Those first few months, he had always been near the ocean when the strongest effects were unleashed. For that, and for the vitality he felt, he yearned to return to New Zealand. In Moscow, he was withering again. Much as he had in Utah.
The Ascendancy was like him. Powerful and private. For those reasons, Elias empathized the instinct to hold secrets close. However, now that the cat was out of the bag, rather than retreat to shadows, the urge to proclaim himself twitched his skin with defiance.
Crowds gathered in the Red Square. People demanding to see the Ascendancy. Protestors and adoring public alike. The CCD did not take kindly to protesting. For while the economy was the freest of all free markets, liberty was quite limited. Kremlin police watched close, shadows of armed guards paced the top of the Kremlin walls.
He left Tony's without saying where he was going. A shard of blackness billowing through the crowd, Elias elbowed his way closer to the gates of the Kremlin.