A/N: Earlier this year, I bought a book titled "Q&A a day for writers", which basically has one prompt per day. The prompt that inspired this particular drabble was the following:
"Shakespeare is credited with inventing words, such as advertising, moonbeam, undress, assassination, blanket, amazement, lackluster, madcap, critic and puking. Select a few of these words to write into a passage here."
Duty
Assassination is not a pretty action. It is messier than he would like, and requires more effort and patience than anything he's ever done in his life. But he's good at it — better than he ever was as a banker.
There is no puking as he drives the blade into his target's throat, as he lets them spill their blood and their secrets on their deathbeds, undressing their plan, bit by bit until he knows.
No feeling of amazement comes from his actions — only disgust and contempt are dedicated to someone advertising his unlawful skills so easily and thoughtlessly. But a moonbeam covers him like a blanket, tearing him away from the critics and pushing him back to work.
An Assassin's duty is never over.