::prologue::
sometime during the third crusade
"We are to remain a hidden society; no one is to know of us, of our brethren. We live by three simple rules. One: Keep your blade free of the innocent. Two: Hide in plain sight. Do not let the enemy know you are there. And last and foremost, Three: Never compromise the brotherhood. These are simple rules yet you seem to have forgotten them, for that you cannot be forgiven."
The screams of the sinful man breach the cool night sky as he is sent up to the Kingdom he has earned, Heaven or Hell.
I shall never know.
I stare down at the bloodied, mutilated corpse from the shadows, my body pressed against the roof I laid upon. I silently hope I can reach the Kingdom best for me, because I have lived up to my sworn secrecy.
