What Comes Before

[Nox]

Raffe spoke twice now and Oriena ignored him. It was starting to irk Nox. "That's twice you've ignored Raffe. I'm getting the feeling you don't want to answer his questions." Nox sighed. He didn't have any leverage and he didn't really care either way about what Oriena would do with the information. "If I cared what you did with the information I was offering you I'd probably make a bigger deal of it. But I don't care if you hunt the man down and hill him. He has tried to kill The Ascendancy twice, he would kill Aria or myself if he had the chance knowing that we had the chance once upon a time to take down the most powerful man in the world." Among other things he'd kill Nox for. "I didn't make a deal with the Ascendancy so much as agree to work for him, as if you care anyway."

Nox nodded upstairs. "I have a copy of of the files upstairs. The man's name in Armande Nicodemus. He is the former head of the National Historical Society of the Vatican, former Regus of the Atharim. And formerly dead. The information confirms he's alive, and his last locations and the people he was with when he disappeared. And I'm making no deal with you for the information Oriena. I have no need of it. And the man dead suits me just fine." The darkness dwelled on the thrill of the possible hunt. But Nox pushed it away. He didn't want the Regus -- he didn't care about him.