~ Meredith Walker, 1771.
'So, I want you to take the two novices out for some real life practice,' the leader told me. He pointed towards my back, where the two novices were standing. 'Meet Charles and Katherine,' he then said. It seemed that he was pretty serious, even though he knew that I was not very good with people.
"Isn't Av-" I tried, but his gaze made me bite my lip.
I turned around, smiling at the two novices, whose names I had already forgotten. "Okay.." I then said, knowing that I could not refuse.
I turned back to the leader. "What will you have us do?" I asked.
'I want you to get some information,' he simply answered. 'The Templars have returned to our woods. I'd like to scare them with some voodoo, but I'm afraid that I can not do that right now since we do not want to scare any others,' he sighed.
'The problem is, we do not know who the Templars are, only that they have disguised themselves. They seem to be everywhere. With the slaves, with our novices.. Find them and kill them,' he said.
'But, do so by the Creed. Follow the rules and make sure that no innocents will get hurt.'
And so, we arrived at one of our secret hideouts in the woods. "Okay," I said, after turning around, "I want you, boy, to disguise yourself as a guard, since there are no female guards."
I bit my lip, thinking about the many possibilities in which he'd screw up. But, the two of them were my Mentor's favorite novices. The best trained ones. One of them even had Eagle Vision. I forgot which one, though.
"We will disguise ourselves as slaves in the meanwhile. Even though our disguises are different, we have the same mission. Retrieve information from the others. Talk with them, ask around.. Watch every single one of them. We can not hurt any innocents, so make sure you find the Templar," I then said.
When we arrived at the back of the camp, I looked at the two of them. I started digging in the ground, without saying why.
After this, I reached out to the girl. "Give me your blades. You can not take them with you. I can see them," I told her. She started protesting, but fell quiet when she saw my gaze. She took of her blades and gave them to me. "You should have done that before," I told her.
I looked at the boy. He did not wear his blades. He had weapons, though. The weapons of a guard. But, that was fine. It would seem strange if he did not carry any weapons.
After we had buried the blades, I ran towards a tree. I jumped, placing my left foot against the tree and reached towards a branch, grabbing it. It did not take long for me to stand on it, after which I looked at the two of them. "Hurry up," I said.
As I ran over the branches, jumping from one to another, watching my surroundings and path at once, I enjoyed the moment. I loved how the wind felt, how it felt to climb and run.. I felt free, as there were no boundaries. We did not have to behave and walk with hour head high. We just.. ran.