10-08-2016, 09:31 AM
Fear started to bubble closer to her. It was the only indication that something was coming her direction. The door flung open with unseen hands. The Ascendancy walked in fury in his eyes. He was holding the power of the gods and he was using it with fear and intimation and everything the Atharim had ever taught her boiled up inside - this was why the gods were hunted. The power made men mad with another kind of power. Aria wondered in those few short moments if she'd been wrong.
But his words came up and Aria knew that the Regus would never have shown her mercy. She wanted to tell the Ascendancy that she knew how it felt, if he just opened his eyes he'd see that fact. But power blinded him - as the power blinded all gods. Aria stared defiantly into his eyes. "You presume that I knew what those weapons did. You presume I have the ear of the Regus. You presume I am more than what I am. I did as you asked. I persuaded the Regus and Borovsky to come with me. They handed me a weapon as we were walking out the door. I led them to the door just as we talked about. There the Regus pulls out a table I have never seen before in my life. He speaks in foreign tongues and an Ijiraq appears before us in all his mystic glory ready to heed the Regus call. It almost killed him then, but the words came out right and it turned tail and came after you. We went a different direction than it. As our plan said to go. They followed still wary. The turned their new weapons through the walls. I didn't know what they did until you blew the walls out and saw with my own eyes. But my concern was with the Ijiraq. There was nothing I could to kill it. It needed to be stopped with intense cold. So I betrayed my people. I told your Sigma two words that made the Regus turn the very same weapon on me. I was prepared to die for you. "
Aria smirked - see what that betrayal had earned her. "I waited for my death but the waves directed at me ceased. I heard a gun shot I saw my former handler pull the trigger a second time. I ran him through with my sword putting him out of his misery. And then I woke up here waiting for you to - what? Kill me now?"
Aria raise her arm to the buring barb of fire and listened to the sizzle of hair and skin and bandage burning. "I know what it's like to burn from the inside out. I know what it feels like to have the weight of the world on your soul, day in and day out. I did as you asked. I could not warn you of things I did not know."
But his words came up and Aria knew that the Regus would never have shown her mercy. She wanted to tell the Ascendancy that she knew how it felt, if he just opened his eyes he'd see that fact. But power blinded him - as the power blinded all gods. Aria stared defiantly into his eyes. "You presume that I knew what those weapons did. You presume I have the ear of the Regus. You presume I am more than what I am. I did as you asked. I persuaded the Regus and Borovsky to come with me. They handed me a weapon as we were walking out the door. I led them to the door just as we talked about. There the Regus pulls out a table I have never seen before in my life. He speaks in foreign tongues and an Ijiraq appears before us in all his mystic glory ready to heed the Regus call. It almost killed him then, but the words came out right and it turned tail and came after you. We went a different direction than it. As our plan said to go. They followed still wary. The turned their new weapons through the walls. I didn't know what they did until you blew the walls out and saw with my own eyes. But my concern was with the Ijiraq. There was nothing I could to kill it. It needed to be stopped with intense cold. So I betrayed my people. I told your Sigma two words that made the Regus turn the very same weapon on me. I was prepared to die for you. "
Aria smirked - see what that betrayal had earned her. "I waited for my death but the waves directed at me ceased. I heard a gun shot I saw my former handler pull the trigger a second time. I ran him through with my sword putting him out of his misery. And then I woke up here waiting for you to - what? Kill me now?"
Aria raise her arm to the buring barb of fire and listened to the sizzle of hair and skin and bandage burning. "I know what it's like to burn from the inside out. I know what it feels like to have the weight of the world on your soul, day in and day out. I did as you asked. I could not warn you of things I did not know."