What Comes Before

[Nox]

Nox was begining to wonder if their proprietor was every a nice person. She was grumpy when they first met but she only seemed to get worse. And leaving Raffe with her felt wrong. But he looked at the man sitting next to him. He knew Oriena. He knew her better, he didn't need Nox's protection. But there was a stab of guilt -- what ifs playing through his head.

But Nox wasn't going to be able to protect Raffe from anything -- he didn't need it. Nor did he particularly want it. Nox had gotten the feeling but he still couldn't help himself. With a reluctant sigh, Nox squeezed Raffe's hand and stood up. "Won't take long."

Well he didn't really know how long the transfer would take. When he made the copy for the Ascendancy he'd started the transfer and walked away from the computer to do more important things. Now he had to wait.

Nox took the back stairs two at a time. He wasn't in a rush -- yes he was. He lied to himself. There was nothing to worry about, yet everything horrible coursed through his mind. Nox waited for the tell tale signs of a female channeling as he sat down at the computer and pulled out another stick to save the information to, including the software required to view the files Sage had gathered. He enjoyed Aurora's work enough that he made stand alone versions of the information in a holographic view easy to view, sort and move things around for the users best experience. But it was still the information that Oriena was looking for.

The information moved from slowly from the computer to the stick and Nox rocked impatiently back and forth in the chair hoping to high fucking hells that Raffe would be alright with their boss.