11th of Frostfall, 12 am, Nightingale Hall
Years ago I started to keep a journal of sorts; this had started when we had our third battle for the Skeleton key. Vex is still missing, and Brynjolf still won't talk to me, but after Mercer I really can't blame him. Though his constant avoiding of me and silence wants me to pull out my hair by the roots, I know I'm just not 'new' enough for him. Why I think that? Well perhaps it's because of the fact he would rather talk to the newest recruit he picked up (probably because she looks nice, Men) who has no ability in thieving that me or Karliah.
I feel like I should stop pressing him on the matter, I'm going to end up sounding like some foolish love-struck teenager who can't defend herself against a skee-
"The rest is cut off and blood splatters the page, Aria." Marcurio called from somewhere behind me, I looked up from the corpse of the nightingale.
"That's pretty obvious, Marcurio, She did die writing." I muttered "does it say anything of interest before that page?" I asked walking up behind him, as I put my hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah if we turn four pages back we get this; 2nd of Frostfall, 4 am, Nightingale hall
I feel like the new recruit is watching me, whenever I turn around she's staring while Brynjolf is teaching her about pick pocketing or something. It terrifies me a little, her eyes are…strange Delvin thinks she just has a little Dunmer in her, but Karliah said it wasn't natural for a nord to have red eyes and that it wasn't possible, even if the father was a dunmer, for her to have such red eyes. Vex is on our side too, she says that Delvin is a fool not noticing anything about the newest recruit. Vex has been on edge too recently…
I went to visit my parents yesterday, they seem happier now that they have immunity against the guild, and maven. They asked me, if I got the chance, to get Brynjolf to come over said it was important. Ha fat chance should he even talk to me."
I frowned, "seems like the 'new recruit' was more than slightly off for a few members of the thieves' guild." I murmured in his ear, "we need to get going before anyone shows up, we'll read the rest at Honeyside." His hand slipped through mine, we left for Honeyside as quickly as possible.
I was tying my hair up in a loose bun when Marcurio called out to me; I sat next to him on our bed, "what is it?" I asked softly, I was overly tired from walking all the way from the middle of now where to Riften.
"The journal says that the new recruit looks a lot like an old guild member from Delvin's time when he had just joined the guild, and by our accounts at the time she heard this he was forty or something like that. That would make our member over sixty, and our recruit stats that her mother and grandmother are all Bretons, not nords."
"You do realise this is going now where and I would very much like to go to sleep? We don't even know is it wasn't just some random bandit!"
"Bandits take down a nightingale?"
"Go to sleep already." I honestly don't know why he even bothers with this, it might have of been just a bandit band or something like that. But I have noticed recently that some of the female guild members you see around town are disappearing…eh probably just going out of town.
I don't know exactly what time I was woken but I do remember Marcurio shooting Fireballs at someone. I sat up in our bed half naked, watching my lover battle it out with something I couldn't see because everything was dark. I got up grabbed my mace and threw it at the attackers head. I heard what I had once thought a sickening crack, but now, it was only satisfaction.
"Told you putting the weapon rack close to the bed is a good idea," I walked over to Marcurio putting my hands on his shoulders. He grunted kneeling down to look at the body, I rolled my eyes. "Alright so who is it?" I asked
"Assassin, with a note as well, care to read?" he asked offering me the piece of paper with the writing.
"Alright so; destroy the woman named Andrii (Bitch spelt my name wrong!) She is too close to my plans involving this guild of thieves, the Grigori will not be please should we fail
Daemonium." I glared at the note, "psychopath." I muttered. " I can't believe Maven's daughter told us to do this, what was her name again?"
"Ignun"
"Stupid name."
"That's what you said the first eight times I reminded you!" I rolled my eyes,
"Come on we had better meet with her." I picked up my ancient nord armour, quickly putting it on, and walked out the door. "Honestly though, Marcurio, why send us on such an annoying, pointless, stupid (story) mission as this? It's completely random!"
"Do you even remember anything before the part we found the nightingales corpse?"
"Nope" I said all chipper-like, Marcurio threw his arms up in the air clearly frustrated.
"Why did I marry you?"
"Because no one else liked you?"
"Probably."
