"Oh wait no I- Wait… Actually…" Valorie pulled out her phone, scrolled aggressively, and pulled up a name on her contacts list. "Giselle Rose Bowen. My mother." Valorie said, not shaken by the fact she was asking him to kill her mother.
He did that, and after a few minutes, he was back.
"Done!" He said, having a lot of blood on him
"Oh, I thought you wouldn't actually do it, but… thanks-" Valorie said, not even explaining the reasoning behind that choice.
"No problem, Val!"
Valorie smiled and handed him a paper. It had a whole new list of names. "If you could…" Valorie began, however not finishing the sentence. The names were all the same one, just repeated: Hector Andreas Bowen.
He does it again.
"Any more?"
"No, that's it. Thanks-" Valorie replied awkwardly. "Sorry for the trouble."
"No trouble at all!"
(shoot gtg. battery is low again ;<;)
(oof)
Nyx slipped away from them after realising that Vozreal had killed Bailey without a second thought, not making a sound. Dashing down the nearest alleyway, she sent out her field and used it to dodge people who might have seen her. Even her ankle spurs were pricked.
She ran, breath steaming in the cold air, until she reached the edge of the forest. Stopping there, she clambered up a tree and hid in the topmost branches, making sure she could see, but not be seen.
Stuffing her hands in her pockets, she searched for a body of water, anywhere she could disappear.
"Let's go hom- where's Nyx?
"Seven," she murmured, "why do I do this? Where do I go?"
She buried her head in her hands. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
"Nyx??" He shouted, looking for her
Closing her eyes, Nyx put out her field, searching for water. The forest stretched for miles around her, beautiful in its cold fall starkness, and the water would be cold, but she didn't care.
There.
She opened her eyes. There was a pond to the east, a mile away, perhaps.
She would go there and hide.
"NYX!!!" He boomed
She heard Vozreal's voice roar from across the stillness and shuddered.
Get out of here, Nyx. Far away.
"Seven, help me," she whispered, making her way back down the tree. She couldn't risk going over the ground; she had to stay out of sight, high in the branches. Nobody looks up when you're looking for someone.
Nyx clambered from tree to tree. Given her short legs, she was surprisingly fast.
"Yare yare…" He said, looking up at the trees, close to where Nyx was
Nyx froze. She was so close; she could see the pond, glimmering like quicksilver, between the branches of the next few trees.
Carefully, she flicked the switch at her belt; the electromagnets on the back of it hummed to life, and she set her bracelets against them, opening the bracelets' latches with her thumb and taking her wrists out, flexing her spurs.
Silently, she began to sneak into the upper branches.
"Nyx! I'm not going to hurt you!"
Water, she just had to get to water, and she would be safe.
She sent a silent plea to Seven and slipped into the next tree.
"Nyx? What's wrong?" He asked
She was close to the pond now.
Come on, Nyx.
"NYX! Come on out!"
She was above the pond now.
Go, whispered Seven's voice in her ear.
Hands gripped bark and let go, combat boots swung through the air, she fell into the embrace of the silvery water.
A splash, and she was gone, sinking through the water to the muddy bottom.