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[Konji]

Hello, and welcome to my all new fan fiction. This time, I will try and cut down on the description as it makes for a bored author and reader. I shall write straight onto site.


Chapter 1
Blood erupted from Cornelius Valaeus' neck as I deftly tucked my knife away back into my pocket. A job well done - and the last time I would work for anyone. I slipped an arm underneath the man's as he looked up at me in his last few seconds on earth. I smiled at him, then opening up the cupboard door I stuffed him in. After closing and locking the door I stepped smartly out of his house, smiling as I breathed in the crisp morning air. I nodded to an average looking guard and made my way back to the hovel I called home, stopping momentarily to give Cornelius Valaeus Junior two coins to deliver the telegram showing my completion as he passed me (Making care to tell him not to read the letter).

I entered the shack and lay down on my mattress, rolling over to place my knife in the drawer beside my bed. I closed my eyes and drifted into a light nap, the time taken up by a delightful dream taking me over praeries and flying with the birds.

I was abruptly woken by a sharp knock at the door, watching the door slam into the shack wall as a well built man marched into my single room.

"Cassell, I have brought you your payment," stated the muscular man as he threw a small pouch into my lap. "200 Septims, tax free and no strings attached. But I'm sick of being his errand boy - I want some real work!" He whined to me in a low growl. I lifted myself up onto one arm and smiled up at him.
"Ah Linz, you will have to learn patience some day." I told the black man, "But you are right, that was mine and your last job under his workings. When you go back politely and humbly give him your resignation, you know, kiss his feet a few times. He's not a nasty man, he'll let you go. But don't tell him what you're going to do now you are out of his service." I advised him.
"Naturally brother, I am not a fool. I'll go now, but give me 40 of those shiny coins so I can buy the paper and ink." I took my money out and passed him the 40 in the pouch. I watched him leave as I slipped the coins under my pillow.

Leaning out of the window I called to him,
"Meet me at the inn!"
"Which inn?"
"Which do you think?"
With a smile and a wink I closed the shutters and put on my best outfit.

This post has been edited by Konradude: Sep 18 2006, 08:42 PM

[Konji]

Chapter 2

I awoke hazily, slowly opening my eyes to a slit and peering upwards. I had expected sky, but was met by a ceiling a few inches above my nose. Used to hiding in very small places through my line of work I was not startled, but smiled and slowly shifted my head sideways to look at my room. The entire place was wood panels, and cramped even with only a small chair and a small table inside it. On the table was a small bottle of brandy, and on the chair sat Miss Flavia Florentino! She was asleep, her head resting on the table near the brandy and her hands flopping limply by her sides. I chortled, then swung my legs round and slid out of bed.

Finding myself without any clothes I looked around hastily, but found nothing. Using my initiative I pulled at Flavia slightly and let her drop into my arms, then pulled off her shawl before laying her back. Wrapping it around my waist I set off around the house to look for someone else. Hearing music above me I climbed a ladder and pushed open a trapdoor and clambered out.

My entire group of disciples were lain drunkenly around a table, laughing and telling jokes. It seemed like a celebration. I called Linz and walked up to him.
"Linz, my brother! What has happened? Who rescued me?" I asked feverishly, slapping him around the face.
"Brother! Cassell! Can't you tell? Your saviour has been by your side in a vigil for 5 days after she saved you from the gallows! But not without a price eh?" he told me, motioning down to my left hand.

Looking down, I let out a cry and fell back onto the floor. Somehow I had managed to get from my bed to there without noticing the lack of a hand, but now it all came flooding back. at the end of my arm there was merely skin around the wrist - it had healed quickly in 5 days with the special herbal lotion Flavia had used. I slowly got to me feet, then faced my brother.

"Aye...aye. Ah well, so where are we?" I asked him, looking around slightly.
"Why, nearing Leyawiin on the Lower Niben." He told me nonchalently, taking a swing of ale.
"We're in a boat?!" I cried.
"Obviously, unless they've invented a floating house."
"It's just....why are we on a boat and not in the Headquarters?" I asked him.
"Ahh, you won't know. The entire city is in uproar. There's riots all over the place, everythings ablaze. The massacre in the cemetery and then your escape has caused political upheaval. I don't understand the ins and outs of it but basically you're to blame. Most people in the city want you dead, except for the poor. So we had to leave." he informed me.
"Oh goody." I replied.

I quickly changed, then hung tight until we arrived at Leyawiin. but who we met at the docks was not who I would have expected in a quiet town by the sea...

This post has been edited by Konradude: Sep 24 2006, 01:01 AM