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As I began to ponder of what my action should be at the railing, a voice spoke out to me.

"Are you planning something? Or is it a real coincidence that the six of you became a team?" A robotic voice that belonged to our "beloved" Cayde asked as he walked up to me. I quickly turned to him, calming down as I chuckled at him.

"What, jealous or something?" I spoke sarcastically. He only gave a dry chuckle as he came over to the railing.

"So what if I am?" That drew a laugh from me and him before he spoke again. "Anyway, what's the news on that Leaked Well?" He spoke with pure curiosity. I nodded and gave off a sigh.

"Well, we told you how it worked and everything, and you already know what caused it." I say as I looked up at the peak of the tower.

"Yea, but I want to know what you experienced there." He says as he looked over the city like Kry did earlier.

"Well, the only way I could label what I saw is some kind of time distortion, something that allowed me to see the past of another person." I say as I turn to him. He nodded as he turned to me as well.

"Strange, very strange….but then again...it's the Vault of Glass' power..so it's not that different. Anything else?" He asks, possibly looking for further info on the cave. I tried to think of something that would help him, but I only chuckled.

"Well, Zula and me are not at each other's throats, well, more like she isn't at mine." I spoke with a sarcastic tone, yet the comment seemed to earn an audible gasp from Cayde.

"Wait, so you're telling me that you got Zula, the greatest of all bitches, to not be one to you?!" He spoke loosely to me, this must be a great surprise to him.

"Well yea, I guess I am." I say with an uncomfortable chuckle. He then smiled and pretended to bow.

"I'm believing it is now fitting you have the Helm of Saint 14. I could not get her to be nice to a Titan to save my life." We both share another strong laugh before I spoke up again.

"So, how was Myata and Kry?"

"Oh them? Well, for one, Kry, he's gotten some serious upgrade while he was out." Cayde spoke with a smile.

"What do you mean?" I tilted my head, a quizzical look on my face.

"Well, he'll be able to handle the energy he used back on the moon." He says with a shrug, seeming to act like he doesn't know what Kry did.

"Well that's good, what about Myata?" I ask with a smile.

"Her? Well for one, she didn't pass out when I questioned her, however, she was only able to , give yes or no answers with her head movements." He spoke in an amused tone.

I rolled my eyes with a chuckle. "At least she's improving." He only chuckled as well.

"Yea, now, Zavala and Ikora will most likely be yelling at me when I get back, so, might as well head back before they send another search party." He says with a dry laugh as he starts to walk off. He then turned to me before he did. "Oh, and, good luck, I got glimmer on you and the others surviving." He chuckled with more feeling before walking off.

I chuckled to myself as I decided to walk another way, towards Luxan's lab.

Once getting there, it was obvious that some work had been done. Weapons and gear was scattered around, but what caught my attention was the two, Luxan, and Jarvis, working on a weapon, a rocket launcher of sorts.

"Here's the wrench oh great one!" Jarvis said with a booming announcer voice, holding up a wrench for Luxan, who seemed highly uncomfortable.

"Ah, yes, um...thank you Jarvis." He said with an uncomfortable tone. It seems he doesn't like being made out to be someone on a higher level.

"It was nothing great one." Javis said, I guess trying to be too humble. I'm starting to think Luxan has acquired a twitch to Jarvis' praising. I kept my laughing quiet as I walked up behind my friend.

"Wow, and where did that old pride of yours go Ravish?" I spoke with a smirk on my face. I watched as he flinched at his old nickname that Kry gave him as he turned to me.

"What are you doing here?! You know I hate that name!" He spoke in annoyance.

"Wow, am I embarrassing you?" I asked as I brought my hand to my chest, acting hurt."

"Shut it!" He said with a bit more anger.

"Actually, I think I should talk to Luxan about your current behavior." I spoke with that smirk plastered across my face. He was clearly trying not to nova bomb me in front of his mentor.

"Fine, what do you want?!" He spoke in a hushed yell.

"Just wanted to check in on my friend." I say as my smirk dropped to a normal smile.

He gave a full sigh before speaking. "I'm doing fine, I'm learning a great deal under his guidance. Plus, he said that when I'm ready, he'll teach me an ability that is lost to most other Warlocks." As he talked, he acted more and more like an excited child.

"That's a pretty good apprenticeship then." I spoke with a smile, happy for my friend, but hoping he doesn't start hopping in place. He nodded and turned back to their current work.

"He tells me that this next weapon will be the biggest and best weapon on the battlefield." He says with a wild grin. "Anyway, since you broke me out of my little trance, I need to go grab some things for him from the gunsmith. So, see you around." He said before quickly going to the door, fast enough that I couldn't say bye to him.

Looking back towards Luxan I saw him raise his right hand and snapped his fingers. A bolt of energy streaked outward from his fingertips heading straight for my head. Quickly ducking I saw it strike something behind me. Looking back towards him I saw a grin as he casually said "Sorry about that flies annoy me to no end. I assume you understand."

After a short pause Luxan asked "Hey Drake, could I get a word with you?" as he stood up from his work. I nodded before walking hesitantly over to him.

"Yea, what's up?" I ask as a simple question.

"As much fun as it is to read mission reports I have always found it better to have a live interview. Amongst the papers the story loses its personal touch. So would you mind me asking a few questions?"

I tilted my head for only a moment before responding. "Oh, the Venus mission? Well, what would you like to know?"

"If you haven't noticed I am a man fond of oddities and irregulars. There is always the typical mission data but underneath all those numbers there is something unique about every mission. Whether it be a strange symbol that you glanced at or a peculiar construct there is always something new to learn from. So tell me did you experience any irregularities compared to other missions? Something that you had never seen before?"

Hearing him ask about the mission almost made me feel like I saw something I shouldn't have seen, yet, it's Luxan, I believe I could trust him. "Well for starters, me and Zula were the ones that went into the cave that was labeled the Leaking Well, and well, when I looked at Zula after a….an encounter with an enemy, I saw a strange thing around her, almost like a time interference, that showed me bits and pieces of her past...and her the same for me." I told him as I thought of the things that could be of use.

"You saw the past of another being? With your own eyes? This is truly exciting. Yes of course I'm going to ask him it I don't need you criticizing me!" He yelled off into the air beside him. "Sorry about that trust me he's a lot less cranky when he's hungry. So you saw another's past? Did you see anything that could relate to the vault of glass?"

That sudden outburst surprised me quite a bit, the only way I could think of that being rational is that it was his ghost speaking to him, but the hungry part, I'm not sure. "W-well, there were some symbols on the walls, like this." I then began to scribble down three symbols that I remembered from the walls of the cave on what I hoped to be a scrap piece of paper on the table.

"Genius!" He yelled holding it to the light while jumping from his chair. "Yes this is just what I had been looking for!" He sprinted across the room towards the wall on the other side. It held many pieces of paper pinned to it with lines drawn connecting some to each other. Posting it to one end he started rambling off to himself as if he forgot I was even there.

I couldn't help but find myself more confused from before. Luxan was acting more strange with each passing moment. I walked over to him, still being tempted to tell him something, that I may know what one of the symbols means.

"Perhaps these are some form of conflux of the warping of time? No that would be ridiculous. Or would it? Hades I told you to think of solutions not scold me for brainstorming. Zeus get over it you can't be that hungry that you actually agree with him. At least Poseidon is on my side in this."

Hearing him talking, I then decided against it, turning to leave, I didn't want to know who the other three were. "Uh, see you around, Luxan." I said as I gave a small wave to him.

After leaving Luxan's lab, I began to question what was truly happening within that place. Instead of thinking about it more, I quickly moved back up to the courtyard. To my surprise, it was close to night time. I rubbed my head as I started my way to a place to sleep before Ghost spoke up.

"Wait a minute!" He spoke with urgency.

"Gah! What did I say about suddenly yelling?!" I spoke with pure anger and annoyance.

"I know I know! But look over at the railing…" He spoke softly as he tried to turn my attention away from himself.

I sighed and turned to look, but I could feel my face change to that of confusion. I could see a lone figure there, sitting on the railing by themselves. Out of curiosity, I started to walk toward them. I don't know if they intended it, but their silhouette matched perfectly in the light of the Traveler, it was quite the amazing sight. As I got closer, I saw a familiar armor color on the guardian…

"Raylin?.." I spoke quietly so I didn't spook her to cause her to fall. I succeeded, she slowly turned her head to her side, not truly looking at me as she spoke.

"Oh, Drake...what are you doing here?" She asked me. Her tone was quite hard to figure out.

"Well, I kinda live in the tower now, so, yea." I say with a small chuckle, it even earned a half hearted chuckle from her.

"I guess you're right. I'm starting to think you are spending way too much time with Myata." She said as she looked at me, a warm smile on her face. To be honest, this may be the actual first time I've seen Raylin without a helmet on. I gave a smile back as I walked over to the railing.

"Who knows? May I join you?" I ask as I lean on the railing. She only gave a small shrug before turning back to the traveler. She seemed distant, in a way that I didn't have a clue how to reach her.

"About that day….in Rasputin…" She started saying.

"Don't worry about it...I won't say anything about what happened!" I spoke quickly, believing she was one of those guardians that didn't want her reputation ruined.

She just began to laugh after I was done. "You, are one different guardian." She said during her laugh. I could only chuckle as she slowly calmed down. "My friends would have already made fun of me, yet, you haven't."

I smiled a little embarrassed as I scratched my head. "Well, I guess I was raised differently."

She nodded a bit before sighing. "I guess only a few of us are taught that way." She said as she looked down slightly. I cringed a bit as I watched her expression changed.

"I-I heard about your father from Myata….I'm sorry." I say gently, trying not to push the subject to her.

She nodded a bit and smiled at me. "Thanks...it's odd, when you say it, something feels, different. Maybe it's something about you that is similar to my dad." I couldn't help but smile back after that one.

"Don't worry about it, we all have our pasts in the end." I say with a bit more pride in my voice. She nodded with a small chuckle.

"Yea, and it seems we both have something bad with the Hive." She spoke in a hushed tone. I could feel my arm flinch at the mention of the Rasputin mission. I turned to her.

"W-what happened to you? Why were you afraid of the Hive?"

She gave off one grand sigh before looking down at the city. "Me and an old friend were attacked by them when I was young. Me and him had went out to play in the fields one day….and that's when the Hive striked. I remember how I froze up at the sight, then my friend grabbing my hand, pulling me away…." I knew what had happened, I knew that her story was the same as mine...but, I wanted to confirm it, to hear her side. "...I fell, and I knew I put him in danger, yet...he threw himself in front of me, separating me from them. Then my father came to save us...it was a frightening experience...but the worst part was...my friend's family moved into the city to be away from the fields...it was one of my last days with him." As she spoke, she seemed to grow closer and closer to tears.

I scooted closer as I began to pat her back gently, trying to calm her. "Hey...it's going to be fine" I could hear her holding back the tears, but it seemed she returned with barely any tears shed.

"Thanks Drake...for being a part of my team." She said with a smile. I nodded back with a smile, tempted to say the same. However, something in me was telling me that there was something awkward starting. However, it was a short lived feeling as I felt another slender hand going around my neck.

"Hey there! What are you two doing out here?" Zula asked us as she had her arms around our necks like we were all friends for years. Honestly, I think my heart rate spiked, feeling her arm around my neck again, and not because I liked it. What caught my nose's attention was the smell of alcohol in her breath.

"Zula, are you ok?" Raylin asked her as she looked at me to help.

"Well, for one thing, I'm beginning to think Titans can be cool. I mean, who knew that Shaxx and Saladin could get Zavala to a small party in the Hall." She spoke in a slightly slurred voice.

"A party?" I asked with a tilted head.

"Yea, Cayde organized it." She said with a laugh, a small chuckle from me and Raylin following. "Now come on you two, especially you Drake, you're Titan brothers are waiting!" She said with a strange tone, one that kinda made it seem like there was another reason to why she was bringing me along, however it was a happy tone, so I couldn't openly decline.

I'm not sure as to believe I'm in danger or not, I just have a feeling it's gonna be one hell of a night...