Assassin

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Assassin

Postby Anaya » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:12 pm

It takes a specific type of person to discard their history, their background and even their name with just a shrug, and don a new one. A person with little regard for life, her own or that of others. A person for whom there is no past, only a present that is a lie.

The girl looked at herself in the mirror. Once, her ash-blonde hair reached to her hips. Now hair the black of a raven framed her face, barely down to her chin. Intelligent, light blue eyes looked critically at her own reflection, and finally, she nodded. This would do.

The best way of hiding a secret is to cover it with other, more exciting and interesting secrets. A finely spun web of lies, the truth of which hidden behind another web. An intelligent observer is more easily fooled than an unobservant one, more easily manipulated into what they expect to be the truth behind the lies.

She thought for a long moment, studying the papers in front of her, and then faced her reflection in the mirror again. "You will be called Phylia. Phylia Tir'Eilan." A human girl, lost and on her own in the city of Stormreach, struggling to stay alive and cutting some space out for herself, bearing an elven name... that should hint at sufficently interesting secrets to start with, and if she was any judge of character, the mercenaries would value someone who is willing to survive on her own.


She gave a last glancing look at the papers in front of her, and then threw them into the fireplace. Then she looked at the corpse on the floor in her room. A blonde girl, a former serving wench. She would do, the resemblance was close enough that the fire would leave her own corpse behind, and not that of the girl. Smiling slightly, she began to douse the room with the volatile brandy her former present preferred.

Today, a rich merchant's daughter dies in flames. Tomorrow, a poor, untrained girl sneaks aboard a ship to Stormreach.
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