"His name was Tiell. He was one of my best friends before I came to be at the tower." Xor began his story as the two guardians boarded their ships once again having secured the of the food rations the Exo had originally come for. "I'm sure you've heard of Mirage, or the 'Exo Stranger' as most guardians call her." Trinity nodded silently as he continued. "Well, she's the one who brought us together. The leader of our little group. There were only four of us, Mirage, Tiell, Valerie, and myself. All of us had been lost before Mirage found us and brought us together. Tiell lost his family, Valerie lost her parents, I lost my city, and we all lost our home to the Vex. Before the end of the month that they arrived, they had killed off over ninety eight percent of the population. They left no survivors, the only evidence of an attack was complete radio silence. The cities they hit became black holes, nothing that went in ever came out again." He sighed, "We formed our group in hopes that we could drive them out, or at the very least, protect the last pockets of survivors that remained. Well the fact that I'm here right now is probably the best answer. We failed and were pushed off the planet. Watching from one of the moons as their machines devoured our home."
"But how did you come to be a Guardian, and the others, where are they?", Trinity's voice crackled over the comms as they left the planet's frozen atmosphere.
"I'm not a Guardian Trinity. Never have been, never will be. I don't have a ghost and I don't do that weird light-power stuff you guys do. As for the others, I can't really say. We kind of parted ways a while ago and haven't made contact since. First Mirage disappeared, after that it was Tiell and Valerie, now it's just me. Doing my best to manipulate the vanguard leaders into fighting as many Vex as possible."
The Exo propped his heels up on the console of his ship, "Now I can't even do that. Not from here anyways…"
"You said something about Tiell and Valerie leaving at the same time, were they close?", Trinity's curiosity peaked as she attempted to learn more about the life her squadmate had kept hidden from the Tower and all its inhabitants.
Xor only let out a bittersweet laugh, "Heck no! Not anything like what you might be thinking. See now, Valerie had lost her mom and dad. Meanwhile, Tiell had lost his wife and kids. They kinda just clicked, y'know? Big lug became more like a father to her than anyone else, and on top of that, Valerie was barely in her double-digits when Mirage found her so she still was in need of a 'guardian', so to speak."
He sighed over the comms, "Although now that I know the big idiot is dead. I can't help but wonder what happened to Lil' Val."
Sorry about the chapter being so short after such a long wait. I've had writer's block for the majority of the time and on top of that I've had school.
I have come out of my writer's coma and will now try to write regularly again.
See ya round!
