Recombinant abilities (to be
discussed in future accounts) and brutally dispersed OBIT. The group
fled, much to Skull's chagrin.

III. The Trinity

Alec continued to feel tense
around Kicia now that Brother Zodiac was at last a member of the
Aggregate. Alec, his mind at peace regarding the Marchessa, felt
that Kicia was his true love, hence he was somewhat awkward with her,
despite what they had shared in the past. Finally Kicia made a move,
and Cowan, having no respect for Brother Zodiac or for Kicia's love
for BZ, succumbed once more to Ms. Blessing's considerable charms.
Trevor was hardly faithful to Kicia anyway, having bedded Sunchild
before her enlistment in the OBIT Gang when she was merely a fixture
of the Flicker Street scene, as well as Empress Moth, one of the
newbies to the Aggregate. Even Ghost Cat, whoCaulder Gaunt had been
professing love to for years, seemed drawn into Novembre's spell.
Gaunt confronted Mei-Chan about the situation, and she graciously put
aside her infatuation with Zodiac to allow Gaunt to “woo her
properly” (his words).

Alec took a trip to New
Orleans with Lykos to find info on the “Grey Messiah”, but the
paper trail only reached back to 1955. Meanwhile, Cotton confronted
Zodiac about his lifestyle and warned the bohemian lothario that his
days in the Aggregate may be numbered, especially if he was quite
literally sleeping with the enemy. On a drunken night in
February 1980, Alec and Lykos confronted BZ about all of this, and
suggested Zodiac go join the OBIT Gang where he might be more
comfortable, and where no one in the Aggregate would have any
compunctions against wiping the floor with him, even