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[Nox]

Nox found Aria in an abandoned grocery store. It was rather creepy feeling. She hadn't been taken from her last known location which made Nox wonder what was going on. He had embraced his power and walked through the fallen shelves and broken bits of building and found Aria lying on top of a headless body.

The head lay staring in pain - eyes long clouded over. It resembled a man he had once known. And from the way Aria knelt in a pool of blood over the body it could only be Dane. There was a stab of pain, and then regret and one of distaste as he walked closer to Aria and touched her shoulder. Her reaction was immediate and violent. Nox held up his hands in surrender but Aria didn't charge just stared at him in confusion, and then in a moment she was attacking him.

Nox sighed and wrapped Aria in bonds of air and then looked around. There was another body on the block and Nox wanted to hurl. "What have you gotten into Aria?"


The look in her eyes said she was pissed at him. He didn't care. She growled in his direction and Nox set fire to the girl, and then to Dane's body.

Aria howled. "No."
Aria struggled against the bonds and Nox let her go until she ran towards to flames that had once been Dane. He was cleaning up murder of the foulest degree all because his partner was wrapped up in it. Nox threw a wall of air around Dane's body and left Aria to her own devices as he set the rest of the dry dilapidated building on fire.

The air around them grew hotter. Aria pounded on the wall of air. "Come on Aria we have to go. Dane's dead. There is nothing you can do about it."
Nox picked up the tiny woman around the waist and hefted her over his shoulder with ease. She was covered in blood and now his jacket would need to be trashed, but Aria at least couldn't go down with the ship.

Once outside and across the street Nox set Aria down and turned to the building and watched as it burned. Aria ripped from his grasp and started to run. Nox couldn't leave the burning building. He had to stay and watch, he wouldn't cause harm to another building even here in the red light district where it probably didn't matter. He watched Aria run away from him. And when she vanished from sight Nox turned his sights back on the burning building. It was an inferno and he would let it burn until the building was gone, nothing but ash. There were no sirens - no one cared about this building. No one cared enough to rush to the scene. Nox sat and watched as Dane Gregory's body burned with a nameless girls. He wanted to chase after Aria but covering this up was more important.