"Ma, we're bored."
Aly looked up from the reports strewn across her desk and studied her oldest set of twins with a little half-smile and a raised brow.
"We don't wanna guard the princess or the Queen or anything boring like that. We want real work." Junare added to his sister's comment, just in case their mother needed more of an explanation. Aly set aside the report she had been reading and leaned forward on the desk to capture the attention of the mischievous twins.
"I might have something for you do. It involves traveling this time, and you'd have to take your brothers with you." She said. Junai and her twin brother Junare eyed their mother warily.
"Continue." Junai prompted after a moment, crossing her arms and leaning against the right side of the door. Her twin unconsciously mirrored her on the left side.
"Sarai hasn't contacted us recently. No letter no nothing. The last agent I sent her way appeared on the slave market in Maren, he never reached her place. So if the two of you are so bored, and can talk Kyprik and Elsren into it, I would like you four to check up on the situation there." The Kyprish spymaster said with a smile at the gleam entering her children's eyes. These two were the ones that took after her, in both temperament and skills.
"We'll do it." Junare said with a nod.
"Kyp and Sren won't be a problem." Junai added, grinning at her twin.
"Then be gone, I have other work to do you know." Aly said, smiling in a teasingly indulgent way and shooing them out with her hands.
"Yes Duani." The two, known as the Bright Eyed Twins to the people of the Copper Isles, chorused happily as they disappeared out the door as gracefully as they had come.
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Junai and Junare found their younger brothers, Kyprik and Elsren, in the practice courts. The younger twins were squaring off against each other with their swords and an audience had gathered.
"Hey brats!! Message from the top!" Junai called before turning and slipping away into the shadows of the barracks. Elsren and Kyprik, also known as Sren and Kyp, looked at each other and shrugged before waving to their audience and trotting after the two. Junai had used the code to say that she had business to discuss when she called them, minus the brats part. They followed their older and better known siblings into the shadows and found them leaning against a wall with identical reckless grins.
"Oh no, it's that look." Kyp commented, not sounding as the words were obviously meant to portray.
"Never good brother." Sren added with a small smile of his own.
"Ma's got a job for us." Junai started.
"But she wants us to bring you two along." Junare added. Junai nodded as he spoke before jumping in as if they had rehearsed this.
"So we're supposed to go and check up on Saraiyu for her."
"She hasn't sent any letters in a while.
"And the last agent Duani sent that way got caught by somebody and showed up in Maren."
"Never made it to where he was supposed to go." Junai finished with a final nod and then the two of them stared at the younger set with hazel eyes filled with mischief. Sren and Kyp exchanged a dark eyed glance and a shrug before turning back to their older siblings.
"Alright, we're in." Kyp said as Sren nodded affirmation. The twins grinned and clapped their younger brothers on the shoulders before turning to leave.
"Great! We'll take care of everything. You two just go about your business and we'll let you know when everything's ready!" Junai said before the two of them loped out of sight.
