Hawk felt the presence before she heard it. The pinprick of eyes on the back of her neck, the emptiness of the void. She whipped around, Malfeasance in hand, but faltered when she saw the familiar exo standing before her.

"The senses deceive us from time to time," Clarity-5 watched the hunter calculatingly, but Hawk remained silent, internally scolding herself for not covering her tracks better. Drifter had given her the heads up that the exo had tried to buy him off, but he sent her on a wild goose chase instead. Hawk glanced at the weapon in the exo's hand. Aunor had found a new informant. 

The exo followed her gaze with amused interest, raising the weapon towards the hunter with almost cold automation, "It is prudent never to trust wholly…" Her voice crackled and distorted, sending chills down the hunter's spine, but still, she said nothing in return.

Hidden behind her helmet, the awoken's eyes flashed towards her exit routes. She knew all too well the lethality of the warlock and warned her ghost to stay out of sight. No matter what happened.

"...those who have deceived us…"  As her voice cracked and shifted like an untuned radio, the warlock calculated the trajectory of their bullets with dull curiosity. She noted that the hunter wasn't even aiming her weapon properly. "...even once,"

Hawk lowered her weapon, in silent surrender. Her thoughts quietened.

"But yet," Clarity retracted her weapon and studied it with disinterest. Rolling her eyes, she stowed it abruptly, "I still come back,"

Two pinpricks of white light flashed up to meet the hunter as she flicked something towards her. Hawk snatched it from the air in shock. She slowly ungrasped her fingers from around the object, revealing a small coin imprinted with a pyramid.

"We have work to do,"

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