Thus Forward

Encryption

Author's Note ~ This will be a rather long chapter, around 1,500 words to 2,000 words. So if you wonder why there might be a ton of filler parts after this one you will know why.

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Ivory's POV

Lukas stirred awake as we got to our stop around 10 at night. "Thanks for the drugs," Lukas mutters. "How the fuck can you say the seriously?" Ace comments pulling a dark red fleece over his grey and blue leather jacket. Lukas grins holding up his now purple yet still handcuffed hands, "I don't know bird boy do you think this hurts more when I'm knocked out or more when I'm awake?" Aiden rolls his eyes pulling up his cloak's hood over his head. Temperence makes a disgusted face, neither joking or being serious, "We're going to sacrifice you." she says pulling on black finger-less gloves, a black scarf, and her violet cloak.

Lukas still spats out nonsense, "Oh come on you wouldn't do that!" I elbow him in the face, 'Accidentally' as I pull my sleeves down from their rolled up state, and pull up my cloak's hood as well. The gold fabric hanging to my knees. "Fuck. You." Lukas mutters. Ace opens the airship's doors letting the snow, and cold dry air blow into us. "Holly fuck," Lukas mutters, "Give me a hat or something please?" I glare at him regretting, my heartfelt choice to bring him along. "Nope!" I say happily.

He groans. Temperence's voice rings out, "Okay I'm taking Aiden and Ace to scale the town's walls; Ivory when we give you the signal, you need to either by yourself of with him, meet up with us. That will only really happen if we really need your help though." Aiden and Ace nod acknowledging her orders. They walk out of the airship, the doors closing after they do so. I start memorizing a map, as Lukas kicks his feet around randomly.

Ace's POV (Wow we haven't had one of these in a while. LOL.)

Despite not having the ability to fly anymore, I had no trouble scaling the walls around the Mistrial capital. Aiden looked unsure of himself as he crouch-walked in front of me. I wanted to push him back whatever; Temperence was keeping him moving anyways. There were a few White Fang camps in the streets that I did see, none were too loud. I did spot who I thought to be Copper and Lily? Both were wearing masks so I couldn't really tell, I pointed to them as Temperence was disarming a camera in front of us. and Aiden was scoping at the area. "I think they are going to the or one of the capital rooms." I comment in a whisper.

Aiden nods, as his almost slips. Temeprence steads him though. "Yes we need to get there before them." Aiden whispers putting his binoculars away. Instead of crouching we all ran balancing on the 1 foot wide 20 foot tall walls surrounding the city. Temperence stayed 5 feet ahead of us the whole time, smashing into security cameras before they could adjust to the darkness and give away our position. We made our way around quickly, avoiding a few turrets with guards watching or sleeping inside. We crawled into the control room in silence. As we hid in the darkest corner of the room.

Temperence and Aiden converse using sign language... something I really should've studied. Temperence leans towards me as Aiden moves to a different place closer to the doors leading in. "Whatever you do, do not, take sentimental value in seeing Copper again. We do not know how violent she is." Temperence whispers taking out her hidden blades and sneaking across the room to hide with Aiden.