This is the second Chapter of my storyline, this was the chapter everything began with. I hope you enjoy! Reviews, comments or likes are always welcome!

It was turning dark when I was sitting on the rooftop of my house. I often was there in the evening, looking as the whale ships on Wrenhaven River pass by, the City announcer called in the evening clock, and the most important; grenades exploding as they reached a group of weepers.

This plain evening started with me, looking for food to feed me and my uncle with. People I got the food from always thought of me as the "Silent and sequestered" girl, I always nodded. Mainly because my uncle always told me not to become too close with people I don't see so often. It paid off. People were compassionate when they saw me, made them give more food and medicines to me.

That made me always follow the orders of my uncle.

I didn't know my mother. My father was executed at Coldrigde for the charge of murder when I was seven, so I can't remember his face after ten years. Ever since I know my uncle –And that was a longgg time ago- I know one thing; My uncle is everything except for plain.

It began when he teached me how to climb walls, roofs and make incredible jumps. I never asked myself why he teached me things like that, but I always enjoyed his lectures, fascinating stories about him, traveling the Isles, seeing all kinds of animals, fighting in tournaments and discovering great places.

It became more interesting when he learned me how to fight with different kind of weapons. And every night when I lay on my mattress on the old dusty attic, hearing the horn of a whale ship passing by, thinking about why my uncle teached me stuff like that.

I wasn't special at all. A 17-year-old girl with no parents. –Well, of course normal people have parents, but in strange time like these it was very normal if you haven't.- Brown bunny-like eyes. My uncle always says I am his little bunny, even when I tell him I'm 17. A scar under my lip, Brown hear flowing past a half ripped white blouse, with a black three-quarter pants. –Also a bit torn- I had no weeper feature. I had a normal posture, I mean.. I wasn't one of the poorest people in town, so I had food. I always walked on bare feet, not because I couldn't buy normal shoes, but I always liked being connected with the ground. Maybe that was a reason my uncle called me special.

But I never searched anything behind it.

My childhood was confusing, because of the weird events played in Dunwall, but I always liked it, I always thought to myself: "My uncle is the bomb!" He took me in his house after my father died ten years ago, he earned his money with his discoveries, and I did using my agility to do chores for people.

My uncle was kind of an idiot, always making things like weapons, armor, devices, and all kinds of medicins. People paid for the stuff he made, giving us enough coins to live a normal life. Or well, as normal as possible in Dunwall.

But... although he loved me very much and I loved him, I finally understood why he taught me all those fighting techniques and free running stuff.


"Allifar, breakfast is ready!" My uncle yelled as loud as he could to reach my little room on the top floor.

"I'm cooommmminggg!" I singed as I started to dash down the stairs. It was a big day, but without a true reason.

"Good morning Princess!" he said as soon as he saw me.

I started laughing; "Uncle Corvo, how many times have I told you better shouldn't call me Princess or Sweetheart."

He grinned out of happiness. "Whatever you want."

A smile also appeared on my face. "And now I'm hungry!" Sometimes I steal fruit from a very rich family a few streets from here. The Boyle family was the richest one of whole Dunwall. I grabbed a Tyvian pear out of a bag on the kitchen table.

It was an old almost broken table, but we made the best of it.

"Yeah, me too" he had said, scratching behind his ear.


As the two of us started to dig in the breakfast, I left a yawn, which made me think.

"Soooo... Actually.. I have a question..." I said without first swallow the food and then talk.

He looked confused and entertained because of my table manners. "What is it dear?"

"Why did you wake me when it is so early in the morning?" Looking out of the tiny window I saw the Dunwall Clocktower show it was only eight o'clock.

"Well, about that.. I need you to do something for me."

He laughed again of me almost choking.

"What... do you want?" I said coughing.


The next few seconds felt like I was dreaming, but it wasn't a very nice dream.

"What do you say!?" I looked at him like he was the Outsider or something.

"I need you to break into the house of the Boyle and steal some of their guards' equipments." He said dead serious.

"W-w-what? Why?!" I felt my thoughts shoot through my mind.

"A good friend, Piero told me they expect a huge boatload of armor and weapons, and I asked him to make something for YOU."

"For me?" I looked confused. "Why for me?"

"Allifar." I need to show you something." He said in a breath before grabbing my wrist and pulling me with him upstairs.


We ended up at his room, his room was not very decorated, the room was the same except for a few things of course. There was a bed, but he didn't sleep on it, in connection with me, sleeping on a mattress on the floor. There was a closet, a mirror with a crack in the right corner, a light, the plain stuff. But there was one thing that made a huge different between our rooms, there was a huge piano in the middle of the room, he used to teach me playing the piano, but as long as I could remember, most of the parts were broken.

He pulled a black box from underneath his bed, It was a leather box with a few chains wrapped around it.

"Looks pretty dangerous." I said with a confused frown on my face.

Corvo closed his eyes and sighed before he started to speak; "Lydia, please take a seat."

He said pointing at his bed.

As I sat down he threw the box on the bed between us.

"Listen, I waited six years to tell you this, and now, you are going to follow me in my footsteps."

Before we could started to argue, he unlocked the chains with a few keys he grabbed from under his pillow.

As he opened the box, I dropped my jaw, I gasped and my eyes and my mind drifted off as my uncle pulled me back to earth.

The box revealed several equipment for combat.

A crossbow, a collapsible sword, a book, a few weird charms, different kinds of arrows, a high rate whale oil gun with ammo, a dress and a really scary but awesome looking mask.

"Okay, you really have something to explain Corvo." I said with my eyes still focused on the full box.

"Alright." He taked at deep breath before he started talking. "When you were five and lived with your father in Tyvia, Dunwall was in even bigger problems it is now. See, I worked at Dunwall Tower and served for the Empress, I never told you because I know you would look like you are doing now." He laughed. "So, I worked there ever since you came living with me. I still have contact with the former Empress Emily. Twelve years back, her mother, Empress Jessamine, was killed by an assassin named Daud." He grabbed the book out of the box and started to search for the image. When he found it he showed the image of a man with a weird grin on his face in a red coat with two people behind him. "That's Daud." Pointing the man in the middle. "So, anyways. Emily was abducted and I was thrown in Coldridge Prison for six months to be executed." He said seriously, although he grinned.

I was in shock.

"But I escaped the day before the execution, and ended at The Hounds Pits Pub, that bar at the opposite of the river. I will show you someday. So, back to the story. I met a huge group of people, Piero also, and I accepted to go in business with them, to find Emily and kill the man who killed Jessamine." He swallowed before he continued. "I got all this stuff from Piero." He said after ending the storyline of events happened in his younger years.

"Wow, this is quite a lot to digest." Touching my forehead and stroke my fingers through my hair.

"I also expect you will get a visit from the Outsider soon. Because of the great powers I give to you now." He smiled. "It sounds insane but the powers he will give to you, will follow you on your journey."

"What journey?" I asked confused.

"The guards of the Empress asked me if I knew any new personal guards around her. I said I knew someone, and that 'someone' is you. Tomorrow, we will be send to Dunwall Tower, and I will introduce you to the Empress. So, you better try your new suit soon." He patted the dress that lay inside the box.

"I will try it later. First you are gonna tell me everything you haven't told me! And you are going to tell me about the Outsider and your visit to him!" I said cheerfully, I jumped up and the thought spinning through my head, concern was also visible, but I didn't need to worry because I had an experienced uncle next to me.

He laughed again. "I'm happy you take this so lightly. Come on! First we are going to eat and then I'm going to tell you everything."

"Kay-kay!" I yelled while taking the box to my room.

That evening I stood in my uncle's room in front of the mirror.

"Well, time to try." I said carefully pulling out the dress from the box.

I gasped as I had it on. I fitted perfectly

The women that stood in the mirror was everything except for me.

She looked brave, no fear, mysterious, not so nice and full of confidence.

"Wow." I looked to myself with a fortunate feeling. Taking the sword and the bow, the sword flipped open, almost chopping my hand of. It was a beautiful sword, with several glyphs a brave shape and a comfortable grip.

I was fully in shock when I got the mask close to my face. I had the same facial contours as my uncle.

With my uncle coming in I burst out laughing. He felt almost from the stairs seeing me with the mask.

"Allifar! Idiot! I almost tripped of the stairs, don't scare me so much." He popped out in laughing also.

After our laughing session I was curious about something: "Corvo, what about that mission you had for me with those equipment?"

I could see he hadn't thought of that since our talk. "I will tell him I will do that mission, while you are in Dunwall tower." he said.

"Oh, alright."

He suddenly pulled me into a hug. "My little girl is getting big." I popped into laughing again. "My uncle is old already.

He looked fake insulted; "How dare you!"

"You want me to stab you?" I said grabbing the sword.

When he saw me put away the sword after my comment: "Oh! You really think I go away without a fight?" He said, pulling in a frolic party

We both laughed until we decided to go outdoors stealing some food.


"He is a crazy, imaginative old geezer, but he is obviously my family. I thought making a smile appear on my face.