AINO
Bringing up the rear, and ensuring that stragglers did not fall behind kept the woman busy. As she hurried her people along to shelter, she was left with a very difficult decision to make. The new leaders were fleeing the scene, it seemed, and called for others to do the same. But The faceless crowd that was the Citadel, the people of Halo, where could they all run? Her mother, her brother and his children - there was no way they could make it out of Halo in the dark and cold, and with hunters on their heels.
As the Barracks came into view and the people began to filter into the sturdy buildings, Aino paused and looked up. A raven winged its way over the rooftops, clearly about to leave, and its sonorous calls only reiterated what Cordelia had said. Morgan, and Ascended. It would seem that the neutrality had been a sham, in the end. Why else would the woman bring the Voice's monstrosities to aid her?
Damn it. Damn it all.
"Sah,Cordelia! Come talk to me for a moment," Aino called, and withdrew to a relatively sheltered corner, out of the way of bustling people. Beconing for them to join her, she lowered her voice and looked gravely at her family - young and able bodied.
"You need to leave," she told them, though it rent her heart in pieces. "Stay out of sight and keep under cover until things settle down, and then head for the Climb. Don't use the Portal if you can help it. Get to Torchline and warn the Queens there of what happened tonight. Tell them that Morgan Aristomache has allied with the Ascended to reclaim Halo by force - don't let them be fooled into swallowing any half-baked lies. This is real, and the world needs to know."
More serious than either of them had ever seen her, Aino locked gaze with her cousin, and then with her brother. "Can I count on you?"
As the Barracks came into view and the people began to filter into the sturdy buildings, Aino paused and looked up. A raven winged its way over the rooftops, clearly about to leave, and its sonorous calls only reiterated what Cordelia had said. Morgan, and Ascended. It would seem that the neutrality had been a sham, in the end. Why else would the woman bring the Voice's monstrosities to aid her?
Damn it. Damn it all.
"Sah,
"You need to leave," she told them, though it rent her heart in pieces. "Stay out of sight and keep under cover until things settle down, and then head for the Climb. Don't use the Portal if you can help it. Get to Torchline and warn the Queens there of what happened tonight. Tell them that Morgan Aristomache has allied with the Ascended to reclaim Halo by force - don't let them be fooled into swallowing any half-baked lies. This is real, and the world needs to know."
More serious than either of them had ever seen her, Aino locked gaze with her cousin, and then with her brother. "Can I count on you?"
Come and conquer, drop your bombs
Cross my borders and kill the calm
Cross my borders and kill the calm
