Nick told Aria basically everything about what had happened inside the room.
Aria didn't seem surprised when she heard how Riker and Monica reacted after Envy told them that they had become useless.
Since Specters couldn't feel fear and since appeasing Envy wouldn't help in this case, the two Specters just fought back to enter the city's good graces.
They wanted to get put in a Containment Unit instead of killed.
This was the same reason why they didn't run away as soon as they had noticed what happened.
As Envy's servants, Riker and Monica knew what the signal that Nick had activated meant.
Nick hadn't noticed it, but when the red storm of the signal washed over him, it had actually coated the surrounding 200 meters in brightly shining red Zephyx.
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