it's a little dubious if the nausea is from the barely abated panic or the bottle of wine he chugged half an hour earlier. likely the former, given his alcohol tolerance is far higher than that. the air is faintly electric from the glow of shop windows mingling with the moisture, although it has temporarily stopped raining. rory shelters out front of a bodega, dark hoodie pulled up over peroxide damaged hair and decade-old vans surprisingly in tact. concealed between the hoodie and his shirt is a decently thick manila folder with pages upon pages of information that was acquired through extremely legal means. if you didn't change your password after it was leaked, that's on you, and makes it much easier for him. his employer insisted that the transfer of data needed to be physical β after all, it was harder to trace, didn't the fbi's most wanted hacker know that? sure, spark said, i'll get my people on that, while rory promptly went and threw up in the toilet.
a tiny voice in the back of his head drifts through the sea of all-consuming paranoia and cheap wine and fucking shit: nobody knows. nobody knows that spark is one person, that he is that one person. nobody knows where he's come from or that five blocks away is the gleaming corporate offices of a family he shares DNA with. even as a slightly shorter but broader man steps under the shelter with him, no acknowledgment outside of a brief nod, he attempts to steady himself on that fact. it doesn't do a whole lot, but this is the hoodie he doesn't keep a penknife in so there aren't any other good options. staring dead ahead into the new york night, he speaks low and soft, β terrible weather. heard that cordΓ³ba is nice this time of year. β / @4ger












