New Players In The Pattern

[Aiden Finnegan]

Aiden wasn’t shocked, but he was very confused. He still didn’t know exactly who or what the Atharim were; just that they were out to kill all Channelers. That was enough to scare Aiden, obviously. He cocked an eyebrow at Sage and voiced his confusion, “Good point… I’m still very ignorant on all of this. I was trying to read up on it all on the drive from Suzdal, but I couldn’t find much about the Atharim online… Save for what the Ascendancy has said in interviews. But how? How can he have been both? If he had anything happen like my little fairy lights, I don’t see how those snakes wouldn’t have found out. Lucky for him he got out when he did… And I guess that’s even better for us, yeah? Having a guy that was on the inside… He’d know best how to cut off the head of the beast if ever given the chance.”

                With a shrug, Aiden spread his hands, “I mean, being at this house does make me a bit more nervous now, but you’re not dead and neither are your roommates. So Nox’s enchantments must be doing the trick. Probably isn’t a safer place to be… At least for now. I’d very much like to learn how to do those things, if possible. I don’t need an invisible dog or sneaky snakes coming at me in the middle of the night. I want to be ready. I want to be able to protect myself… And those that I might care about.” Aiden winked at Sage then.

                “I wanna see the house and what you can do… and this mythical dojo,” he was all smiles at that last line. Aiden’s life had never exactly been normal and now it was shaping up to be like one of his books. That was both frightening and exciting.