Another Mother-Son Relationship…

- New York City

In a building that formerly belonged to a major financial conglomerate, a completely new purpose had replaced it.

It was a castle in the most modern sense imaginable.

Though its function was less about the peacocking of some meaningless nobility, and instead focused more on efficiency.

Even now, there were well over a thousand occupants within the building, all working cohesively on one regime project or another.

On the top floor, in a window office high enough to touch the clouds, there was a lone man standing in a lavish office.

In his public persona, Arias typically wore bold white robes with gold insignia on them in the image of a rising sun.

But those clothes were ones he usually only wore for formal events and the like. 

In his free time, and even when he was working, Arias liked to keep things simpler whenever he was able. 

*Knock, knock, knock!*

"Come in, Carly!"