Note: This is set at the end of the Season of Chosen
The Locus of Communion stood over Magnus and Cassandra, staring at the last member of their fireteam, the Titan Camillus, for his part had barely been able to get up from the last hit he had taken with his mace, and the two simply stared at one another. The Titan knew he did not have a lot of options left, he couldn't retreat, so he had to attack. Camillus called upon his connection to the Light and erupted into a mass of arc energy as he flew towards the Locus, he pulled his right arm back into a striking position as he neared the giant scorn, but right before he struck the Locus, the mace hit him, knocking him into the far wall. He coughed as he struggled to get up, but his broken limbs refused the call to action. He looked up to find the Communion standing before him, mace raised in attacking position. As before the two stared at each other for a moment before the Locus uttered "You couldn't save Cayde, you couldn't save your fireteam and now you can't event save yourself" and the mace came down.
Camillus bolted awake, rising from the bed in a cold sweat. He had been dreaming, he had been dreaming. He had to repeat that to himself a couple of more times to calm down. His brief calm was quickly replaced by frustration as he threw the covers off of himself as he stood. His Ghost materialized next to him and looked at him for a second before asking "Another nightmare?"
Camillus regarded his Ghost before answering, eventually replying "Yes it was another one" he rubbed his eyes and said "This one was about the Glykon"
Little Light moved in a bit of a nodding motion and said "The Glykon is a mess" Ghost then looked a bit accusingly at Camillus and said "You should get more help when going there, it's not healthy doing the investigation on your own"
This had been a repeated conversation between the two since they had boarded the ship several weeks earlier. Camillus rubbed his eyes and looked at his and said "Look I can't ask them to go back there, they had bad reactions after the first time- "
"And you didn't?" Little Light asked accusingly. Camillus looked down at the floor and sighed.
Knowing that this conversation wouldn't get anywhere Camillus looked back up to his Ghost and relented "Look I'll think about it okay?"
He looked out of the lone window on the far side of his quarters and saw that it was still night. Knowing that he wouldn't be returning to sleep for the rest of the night, he turned to his attention to getting ready for the day, donning his armor
Later that morning, Camillus stood at the front of the H.E.L.M, faintly listening as Crow and Osiris discussed something about the Cabal. He gazed out towards the city as he became lost in his own thoughts. He knew that he should ask Cassandra and Magnus to go back to the Glykon with him, but he didn't want to explain that he had been back there since the first mission. His nightmares had become worse since the first incursion, he had always had nightmares, but these were different, more real, and far more visceral.
The conversation in the background seemed to draw to a halt and he turned to look back at his companions. Both Crow and Osiris stood looking at him. "I'm sorry" he started as he turned fully around and approached the map "did I miss something"
"No" Osiris stated plainly, as he studied Camilus "We were just discussing your most recent find aboard the Glykon"
"The Crown of Sorrow" Crow stated from the far side of the war table "Were trying to figure out what to do with it."
Camillus placed a hand on the table and thought for a moment. He had serious reservations about Osiris's plan with the Crown and so he replied, "Whatever we do with it, we should keep it off of Earth" he looked at Osiris with a serious expression "I have seen what the Crown can do, and we should keep it as far away from the City as we can."
"I concur" Crow agreed.
Osiris between the two of them and sighed "I will take your opinions under advisement" he then looked at Camillus pointedly "But we can learn much from the Crown"
Camillus stared back "I don't disagree Osiris, but we have to be careful about this" Camilus looked to Crow and then back towards Osiris and continued "Our first mission is to protect the City, and we can't endanger it by bringing the Crown back here".
"Spoken like a Titan" Osiris replied.
"A title I wear proudly" Camillus said, he gave out a tired sigh and then said "Just ask Ilkora and the Commander about it during your meeting"
Osiris checked the time on one of his many pads lying about the war table and replied "Yes I will" he looked back up and said "I have to get going so I'm not late for the consensus meeting"
Camillus watched as Osiris left, leaving only himself and Crow left within the H.E.L.M. The Awoken moved towards Camillus and said "Osiris is almost obsessed with this Crown"
Camillus nodded "Well that's his personality, and from what I understand he was always like that". Camillus looked back at Crow, and said "You and I should keep an eye on him" a thought occurred to him "I have a meeting with Saint in a few hours, I will try speaking to him about this mess"
"Okay" Crow replied "I have to go file some reports, let me know if you need anything"
