New Players In The Pattern

[Sage]

Ascendancy couldn't protect them from the Atharim.  He didn't know who they all were.  "How do you protect the world from snakes in the grass but they look like blades of grass just like everyone else?"  Sage sighed.  "I'm going to tell you now because now is better than you getting mad later.  Nox is Atharim.  He is one of these so-called channelers and he is being hunted by his own people.  He knows them, how they fight, how they'll come at us here.  You can't wipe out the Atharim.  They fight the things that go bump in the night.  They fight baba yaga, and those creatures from the simulation I showed you.  Nox fought them, he lived."

Sage knew Aiden might leave now.  And he wouldn't blame him, but it was better than him finding out when Nox said it.  Nox was proud to be Atharim.  Ashamed of their deeds but he was Atharim.  "I understand if you want to bolt now, but you need to get those fire  things under control.  And I really do want to show you the house, and more of what I can do."