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The young man nodded to him, before the doors closed, and Noah was left to thing alone in the company of Lilith. 

'Don't speak in words yet. We can talk like this for the time being," he warned her, as he felt the snake would start up a conversation.

'Is there anything I should know?' she asked him back, straightening herself as if ready to attack while staring up at his face from the ground.

'No, not really... It's just a hunch. Let's make sure not to let go of our leverage and secrets. I have a feeling things aren't as simple as they may seem around here...' Noah's sense of oddity only grew the longer he stayed in the Khan Family headquarters. Staring down the glass wall of the elevator, the image of the people working on the offices around painted him a story more akin to that he'd lived in the past. 'We have to remember, the Nine Families exists only to stabilize the existance of the families themselves. And that man was one of them.'