"Fina? It's ready. For a test drive... err. Flight."
āA test flight? My, myā¦you never quite cease to amaze with your technological wonders. If I had another lifetime, I donāt think Iād be able to see them all. Then again⦠youāve spent a lifetime learning havenāt you?ā The Seraph chuckled softly as she leaned back in her chair. A kick of one lever locked the door behind him and another shined the lamps upon the ceiling and cast the whole room in a soft light.
Fina wondered at all the time that had passed between since they had met. One year, the waters were infested with sharks after the scent of fresh spilt blood. The frenzy had long since ceased as sand filtered through the hourglass of months. The game was young then. Pawns were laid on the table and traded for neat objectives, squares on a grid worth innumerable lives. That was, if she hadnāt kept count. Slowly, that tainted blood that filled their veins was diluted.
Years later, they stood linked with brittle handshakes in one hand and hidden daggers in the other. That liquor of life concentrated with greed in those hearts that remained. Still, here Felix was, in her office instead of she in his, but it wasnāt plays of power that intrigued her. It was what he had lost and gained to be here. Heād freed his own soul from the devil, turned back his cursed deal. Yet, here he was bargaining with a lesserĀ āfallen angelā so to speak. What drew him back to this den of misery and deceit? The unspoken answer was what held her interest.
She chided herself. Idle thoughts were for idle minds and bodies without a dayās purpose. Now was a time of business and innovation, implications saved for the end of the night. The Seraph uncrossed and recrossed her legs as she leaned her elbow to rest upon the lacquered surface of her desk.
āSo⦠tell me, Felix, what will you need to test the apparatus. I would hope that we see Daedalus escape the Labyrinth of his own doing rather than Icarus and his prideful folly. You, Zaun, and I? My, my⦠you would make a wonderful poetā¦ā Again, honey laughs pass her lips as her eyes smile instead of hidden lips. Then, her voice softens.
āTruly I do. Felix, my Daedalus. Fly and leave your foolish Icarus to her fall. Perhaps I will learn to swim the bay to find you when the waters are calm.ā
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