Serryn was well connected. If anyone was asked about her, they most likely know of her, but didn't know much about her. They knew those who got too close disappeared under mysterious circumstances and no one ever seemed to ask any questions.
She had many contacts and one such person had led her to this darkened alleyway, lying in wait for her prey. She had been tracking him for a month now, until she knew his daily routine like the back of her hand. She had nothing better to do, this man was what all her hunting had been for and she would not mess this up.
She sat perched on a stone ledge with a good view of the street ahead and the alley behind. The people in the streets were dwindling as dusk fell, casting shadows that people walked quicker to avoid. Something that might have been a smile twitched on her lips. The shadows were for hiding, if one was clever enough. And she knew the person she was stalking knew that as well. He had been rather hard to follow at first, but once she begun to figure him out, it all came easier.
Then she saw him.
Tian.
His head was covered by a hood, like usual. He paused by the alley, as if sensing there was something hiding in the shadows. Serryn had to give him credit, he was good. But she had had hundreds of years of sneaking in the shadows.
She dropped softly from the ledge when he blinked, crouching in the shadows. Then, before he had time to draw in breath she was behind him, a very sharp knife pressed to his throat with her right hand, her strange, shadowy left hand pulling his hood down and jerking his head back by his hair, exposing his neck.
"We can do this the easy way, or the hard way," she whispered into his ear.
She had many contacts and one such person had led her to this darkened alleyway, lying in wait for her prey. She had been tracking him for a month now, until she knew his daily routine like the back of her hand. She had nothing better to do, this man was what all her hunting had been for and she would not mess this up.
She sat perched on a stone ledge with a good view of the street ahead and the alley behind. The people in the streets were dwindling as dusk fell, casting shadows that people walked quicker to avoid. Something that might have been a smile twitched on her lips. The shadows were for hiding, if one was clever enough. And she knew the person she was stalking knew that as well. He had been rather hard to follow at first, but once she begun to figure him out, it all came easier.
Then she saw him.
Tian.
His head was covered by a hood, like usual. He paused by the alley, as if sensing there was something hiding in the shadows. Serryn had to give him credit, he was good. But she had had hundreds of years of sneaking in the shadows.
She dropped softly from the ledge when he blinked, crouching in the shadows. Then, before he had time to draw in breath she was behind him, a very sharp knife pressed to his throat with her right hand, her strange, shadowy left hand pulling his hood down and jerking his head back by his hair, exposing his neck.
"We can do this the easy way, or the hard way," she whispered into his ear.
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