A/N: Thanx for all the nice reviews …chapter 3 is a lil inside info on our lil friend the assassin… enjoy
Chapter 3 Painful Memories.
The raven haired young woman looked out over the forests for she was sat in a cave some hundred meters above the city, the moons hung in the dark blue night sky like orbs of light, how she loved those moons always lighting the way for lost or troubled souls.
Ri sat close to the small fire she had made in her makeshift home, the plan had gone well, they had the journal.
Ri sighed.
She hated to be alone like this, in the last ten years she had rarely been alone; if it was with other assassins or soldiers, the cat twins Eriya and Naria or even in the accompany of Folken or her next victim; Ri had rarely been this alone.
Ri looked at the pile of flies that they had given her… she had already looked through them, no one she remembered; all failed experiments of the sorcerers. Ri had hoped she would have been able to flick through the pages of Folken's journal herself, seen what her Commander kept from her.
Ri let out a long and lingering sigh, she hated the quiet of night, her mind would drift back to times of hurt and pain for that is really all she had felt.
She rubbed her neck, the amount of times someone's hands had grasped her neck in a vain attempt to save their own pitiful lives as she would twist the dagger in their chests, push it in farther in hope to scrape the heart or pierce an artery. That was her style, to get in close often seducing her victim, earning their trust.
That is where she had gained her name, 'The raven haired Angel of death'. For the poor girl was blessed with the looks of an angle, though many who gazed upon such beauty often turned up dead at dawn.
She shuck off the feeling, memories hurt and those few good ones only led to pain.
Ri stood and walked to the opening of the small cave, she had a good view of the growing city. She hated being in Fanelia, though she loved the country for she truly loved the mountains and the dragons she hated the memories.
Ri had been born in Fanelia a fact kept from many people, her mother had died when she was three years of age, the reason for her mothers' death brought more pain to her heart then anything, her father was a mystery to the assassin, a failure of a man who left his child in the forest to be found by wondering Zaibach spies.
A cold wind blew, the assassin moved back into the caves, why was she thinking of her mothers death now, why was she thinking of her father, the father she hated with a passion.
As Ri looked into the fire she smiled softly, "so that was Folken's brother?" she thought to herself, "I wonder who the blonde was, I haven't been looked at like that in a while, it would have been fun to play a few games with that one. I bet he's a right playboy."
Ri sat once again by the side of the fire, she hated this solitude. She wished for a piano, the man that took her in had taught her the piano, though she only knew about two songs she had loved to play. The only piano on board the Vione was that in Folken's Chambers, she had often sat and played for the girls whilst Lord Folken was locked away in his laboratory, sometimes she would play for all three of them, Ri had always been welcome to stay with the girls. Eriya and Naria adored Ri; she had trained them and took care of them when ever Lord Folken had been too busy.
The assassin smiled softly, such times were gone now, the people that filled her memories were gone, all she could do was finish the mission and be as free of Zaibach as she could. Living with her painful memories.
Disclaimer note: I do not own Escaflowne or anything related with it…But Ri and Mii are my own characters...even tho i got the name from Furuba...thats not a crime they use the same names all the time.