[5.2.5] "He's good at hiding, the little weasel" - Syntax - 8/10/06

Niobe's good at a lot of things, but taking it easy isn't one of them.

She's still not back at full strength, but she's insisting on making public appearances. She puts up a good front, but she can't even get out of the seat by herself after jacking out.

At least this time she was meeting with Zionites. Oh, the Mervs and Machinists were outside, trying to get in, and whining up a storm about Niobe being thankless--actually, it was just the Mervs who were whining. They must not have noticed that she's already met with a large number of them separately.

It's interesting to watch her. She is getting stronger. And she's gradually coming to grips with Anome's betrayal. Niobe has been very reluctant to trust anyone for years now, yet she trusted Anome, and he turned and shot her in the gut. Will this harden her further?

You'll never have reason to doubt your trust in me at least, Niobe. You could have, for my failure to be there when Anome turned traitor, but it isn't in your nature to blame people for their own shortcomings. You may curse them out in public if you're really mad at them, but deep down, you blame yourself. I can tell, because I do the same. Maybe that's why we still get along.

The Roukan wispers were priceless.

~V

What familiar code remains has been in your favour, Niobe. But, do you live yet, or have Anome's desires ravaged your heart? I've gazed upon images of warriors run through by the haze of their own mind, brought on by the evaporation of crumbled dreams. So many have let their feet touch your dream that now it may have been wasted. What still stands is of stone, and so many would wish to save their wreckages on the pillar of your strength.

Do not take up the avenging sword of fury, its cut constructs only a pillaged mind and body, rather, allow Anome's actions to unfold you and so wield determination beyond Anome's. Determination running rampant through you at passion's pace, no less.

These words stand alone from advice, they hold the weight of gold. Deep beneath the lead coloured text, a golden meaning is conveyed. These are the truths retained from the long trail of all our experiences combined. The voices echo the words and stories of warriors that existed within this plane. Rewards are the sum of fury, hatred or revenge, these are the designs of stale minds who gaze no further than the shroud of negativity.

May the code be further at your service, and may the twisted metal seas unwind before your strides.

Rewards are the sum of fury, hatred or revenge, these are the designs of stale minds who gaze no further than the shroud of negativity.

That was cold.... ouch

But also I do wonder how this will affect Everyone's relationship with Niobe, Because I know she has talked with some Zionites one on one and Said that She trusts them. And thats not alot of people that she'll say that too.

So i wonder if this will bring everyone back down to square one with her. I hope not.

Niobe should have paid for her stupidity. Instead, we're back at square one - tensions between Zion and the Merovingian, some kook running around with the power to destroy the Matrix, and the General pulling strings left and right.

It's as if the past three months never happened...

Niobe should have paid for her stupidity. Instead, we're back at square one - tensions between Zion and the Merovingian, some kook running around with the power to destroy the Matrix, and the General pulling strings left and right.

It's as if the past three months never happened...