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One could have thought someone placed a gravity spell on Nathan, but no, he just felt incredibly weak. He lifted his head to look at Abaddon who stood above him triumphantly. At the very least Nathan got what he wanted and it seemed there waa no way like this that could force him to give it back. "What...?", he asked. Was that the thing that disabled the seals? Was it possible it held so much power it disabled all magic around it, even the naturally produced one of his kind and others like him? …

Nathan couldn't deny that all of this affected him. He didn't fall asleep right away, not at all actually. He got up again to have a quick snack, then read a little bit to get his mind off of things. Eventually he found a few hours of sleep. The next morning he didn't quite know what to do yet. Ros didn't write him, he rarely apologized for anything, he was thick headed and Nathan wondered if any of his apologies were ever genuine, or if he said anything for Nathan to come back home. Whatever, N…

"I didn't want to be rid of her, she's a friend. I was right not bringing her here or asking your help.", Nathan replied with a mix of being taken aback and anger. Ros wasn't making things any better with his view on that artifact, or any artifact. "I'm really sorry you and your peers hate my kind so much. Analyze? If you had any half decent mage employed to do that job, maybe I'd agree, but all you have is some second hand idiots who never even touched an artifact like that outside their job. I…

"You mean you would have made sure you lock her up. Unlike you I can listen to someone's wishes and besides, I wouldn't want her locked up either.", Nathan was quick to retaliate. Ros would one day lock up Nathan too, as he somehow tried before, but next time he probably wouldn't just try to use reason. All in the name of keeping others save. "You... You don't understand. We don't know if it's the only one of it's kind, we'd be much better off understanding it instead of getting rid of it..." Ro…

"Where is she?", Nathan reiterated the question, then shook his head. "I don't know, I dropped her off and let her go.", Nathan answered a bit irritated that that was the first question he got. "Yes, he has to know who he sold this thing too. At least my contact said it wasn't for him.", he nodded eagerly, being shoved out of the way, but he didn't mind. "This other artifact... I've never read anything about it, Abaddon must know more about it too. He can't be having that for long I think." Agai…

While Nathan waited for Ros to come home, he figured he could look over the papers and books Ros' had spread on his table. He did say he found something and Nathan was interested. He lost track of time while he looked through everything and only was brought back into reality when he heard the door. He looked up, got up even and greeted Ros with his presence. "No, but I found out a few things. My contact was the one stealing the artifact. Not for herself, it was a job that went trough Abadon. I g…

Ros' tips were probably good, but Nathan didn't know how to do all that and he didn't want to hurt Shiva either. He tried to put something together in his head while he finished preparing the breakfast, but when he got back Shiva was on the way out. It took Nathan quite some time to stop her and talk her out of leaving. Once she finally agreed to take better care of herself and heal before she left. She obviously didn't like Nathans questions and he had the feeling he needed to be very careful o…

Ros seemed weirdly attached all of a sudden again and weirdly... diplomatic? There weren't too many questions and he seemed to bite his tongue somehow. Nathan was glad about it and once he hung up he sighed. Now about the curse or whatever. Nathan spent his night examining Shiva a bit while she slept and reading a lot in his own books. He couldn't detect any poison or curse, she seemed fine from a magical standpoint. It would be easier if she told him what happened if she wanted him to help her.…

Ros took a while to pick up, but he eventually did with his antiquated phone yelling Hello into the phone like an old man. He informed him of not really have found anything, but what was he even on about afterwards? "Coming back? Since when did your apartment become the base of operations?", Nathan asked. Sure, Ros didn't want to teleport and he graciously let Nathan teleport into his, but still, he wasn't aware they had to meet up every other hour to talk about their findings. Nathan was back i…

In the bathroom Nathan helped Shiva out of her clothes to take a proper look at the gash on her stomach. "Wait here.", he told her unnecessarily, rushing out to raid his cabinets and drawers. He finally came back with two sets of things, some magical powders and salves and some simple gauze. "There is nothing much I can do...", he mumbled. How often did he catapult himself in situations in which he wished that he didn't study all forms of magic, but concentrated on only one or two. If he'd be be…

"You literally said it would be better off destroyed just a minute ago...", Nathan mumbled. It was impossible to have any discussion with this man. He just made up whatever was convenient for him. "What do you mean 'It happens'...? I... whatever..." Was he supposed to apologize that he wasn't like Ros? That he didn't want a lot of people around him? Ros wasn't even better, how many real friends did he even have? Not acquaintances or colleagues, friends. Did he even realize that he phrased everyt…

"Destroying such an artifact? Aside from the unvaluable knowledge it holds, do you understand how much energy that would set free? Do you understand that such a force, if not discarded of correctly, could destroy more than just a few leylines?" Clearly Ros didn't understand any of this, he didn't know what Nathan dealt with here and that was why he was always so condescending. "Nothing heated about this...", Nathan mumbled, tired if anything. "If it was easy I hadn't come to you for help.", he m…

"You're acting like I don't take extra care of all those things. You're acting like they were saver anywhere else but with me, because you never believed in my capabilities. I'm not a bird, I'm not carelessly piling shit up. Excuse me for not preparing for something I have never read or heard about before and you clearly haven't either." Nathan sounded less angry than he wanted to, if anything his voice was about to break and he could only hope he was able to mask that. This situation wasn't eas…

"Because you only ever point out all the negative things you notice, insinuating I can't take care of myself, for example, or calling what I do me being like a magpie." As if this was just a stupid game to him too. He needn't question his profession, or interests, but Ros always found a way to try and change Nathan into a copy of himself. If it wasn't interesting to Ros, how could it possibly be interesting to anyone else? "If they were capable of creating an artifact like that, surely they woul…

"Having to point out how sad and useless I am every other minute is pretty sad too...", Nathan replied without much energy behind his words. Nathan was a loner and usually he was fine with that, but whenever Ros was close to him, he made him question his decisions and his life. He was happy how he lived, he didn't need anyone else, but Ros kept questioning him and planted doubt in Nathans mind. He felt less and less bad for leaving like he did. Ros would have probably just talked him out of it, …

Was Nathan overreacting now? No! Ros always did that. He said something and when Nathan retorted he was told that it hadn't been meant that way. Of course it was. Nathan grit his teeth, annoyed by the fact that Ros already made him doubt himself and pulled on the hood a little. "Nothing.", Nathan mumbled. He was glad Ros wasn't able to read minds. "I'm fine, you're acting like you are my parent. Who's saying I can't take care of myself?" There was nothing wrong with him, besides the fact that he…

"Yeah? If they get stolen here, they get stolen anywhere else too. Can you stop acting like I am just shit at my job? I am telling you, I am not and this break-in is something I have never seen before. Someone had to know where to look - and I am very discrete about my artefacts - someone had to get up here, find the right invocation to find the door, the right one to open it and then he had to break through all my seals, reassembling them just like they were. If you think I am just bad at what …

"I'm not hoarding it, I am keeping these things save. What do you think would have happened if someone else had held it the past forty odd years?" He had more to say but he bit his tongue. Ros would never stop patronizing him and making him feel ridiculous and worthless. With all the non acceptance Nathan received one would think at least his lover would be on his side, but no, he hadn't been then and he wasn't now. Maybe he felt better about himself if he could call someone else odd or a freak.…

It took Ros a while to come back and when he did he looked like he was about to go to a dance or something. He changed, but somewhow for the worse. He always valued what he wore but this? This seemed to be compensation for something he was lacking, but Ros would never admit that to himself. While they both never fit in, Nathan was happy to learn how to be content with who he was while Ros still seemed to get his validation from other people, strangers no less. Nathan got up saying nothing, simpl…

Ros seemed happy for just a moment but it was soon gone anyway. It seemed like Nathan didn't say what he wanted to hear, whatever that was, but in the end he was just honest about the reasons he came to him and no one else. Wasn't the truth enough? Sure, Nathan didn't tell him everything yet, but he also just wanted to make sure Ros hadn't changed too much and would be on his side. If he layed open absolutely everything, what stopped him from cutting Nathan out of this investigation? No, he had …