New Players In The Pattern

[Sage]

Aiden's taunt made him grin but it was the clap of thunder that made Sage turn around and look at the man who'd they'd tried to get a reaction from. The sound still made his ears ring and he barely heard what the man said. There was no smile on his face. He was one of Nox's god's. He was like Nox and Aiden and a countless other people around the world and he commanded it almost as effortlessly as Nox.

Elias was all dark, his face contorted in the anger of past torments. Sage knew that kinda torment, he'd been that kid too. Now he preyed on it, finding the outsider to follow and make friends with. Gathering information and learning and growing and feeding on that influence. He'd avoided the government, he could do it. He proved he could when he hacked into Ascendancy's God recognition program - though he called it something else. And again when he hacked the hospital he'd been taken to. He could do it. Until then he never had, and that was a good reason to.

Sage frowned at the goth looking emo kid... he was not a kid, and neither was Sage. The game had been childish. He looked to Aiden and hopefully he understood too, but he was a rich and powerful man, sat on high. Sage wondered if he'd been kicked in school. Been harassed or bullied.

Sage didn't take a step closer and he clung more to Aiden's hand than before as he did. Aiden couldn't control his power, and ever more Sage wished Nox were around. Stupid paranoia he had would always see him walk away alive. Funny how time changes things. But Sage tried to give a friend smile despite the fear that was building up along the dredges of his last few months of horror show. "Didn't mean anything by it. Just proving a point to my friend. And to do so needed to invoke a reaction. I didn't mean to sound like a mean kid."