I walked slowly around the streets back towards the Saint Chappelle hoping Adelaide was still there, I let my special talent to try and locate her. With a magnificent stroke of luck she was at a nearby market stall, idly browsing the fabrics there. I walked up to her slowly lowering my hood and wrapping my arm around her waist, slightly startled she turned at the sudden touch, but I spoke before she could, "Find anything that you fancy darling?" I smiled at her and gave her a tight squeeze, She shook her head silently and I nodded, "Alright, shall we get going? It is getting dark." she nodded slowly and silently as I began to pull her away. I whispered in her ear, "I had to take necessary precautions, there were some men staring at you that bear the symbol I do, but I do not know if they bode well for my order or not." I slowly felt her lace her fingers with mine and I gave them a comforting squeeze.


As we walked I quietly discussed with her what our plan was, my mother, father, and I were going to train her and attempt to infiltrate the assassin headquarters and root out the ones who broke the creed.

After a few moments of silence Adelaide spoke timidly, "So what does this creed entail? You don't seem like a mindless killer, but yet again, the way you murdered those guards without a second thought, makes me think otherwise."

I breathed heavily, "The basis of our creed is 'Nothing is True, Everything is permitted' and we have three basic tenets, the first is to stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent, the second, hide in plain sight, be one with the crowd, and third is to never compromise the Brotherhood, these assassins we are going to kill have compromised the Brotherhood, so they must die."

"You say that your creed requires you to stay your blade from the blood of innocents, yet those guards you killed, were they not innocent?" she innocently asked.

"The goal of the Assassins is to ensure peace in all things. The Assassins believe that political assassinations and the death of the corrupt would bring peace and a true sense of security to the common people. Slaying innocents and civilian bystanders who do not need to die could spread strife and discord, in addition to ruining the name of the Assassin Order itself, they were causing strife to the people, you, so I ended it. The tenets do not always make sense to us, but they protect the people, that is our ultimate goal, is to keep the people safe and in power." I answered silently and stoically.

"So you protect the people, by striking fear into their hearts?" she remarked.

"Sadly yes, no one should have to die if they are not enslaving the people." my voice was lost in the crowd.

We stayed silent after that, I felt her arm wrap around mine and her fingers laced tightly between mine, we looked like a common couple, I took my armour off and was in simple and light robes with a common sword and dagger on my waist, and my two blades were hidden under my cloak. I gave her fingers a tight squeeze and pulled her hand up to my mouth, breathing lightly on it and I planted a light kiss on her hand in comfort, it was a scary experience seeing two men killed before your very eyes then finding that the safest place was with the killer, and now to be taken from your family, if she had one, and leave them for who knows how long, I knew what that felt like slightly. I lowered her hand as we reached my hideout.


Once inside I was greeted warmly by my mother, and I saw the cold stare of my father, I glanced away keeping my head down, I spoke quietly, "Questo è Adelaide La trovai oggi viene attaccato dalle guardie, che ha accettato di far parte del nostro treno per ordine. Si prega le permettono di formare e aiutarci." Adelaide looked confused by my words, I shrugged her off and looked at my father.

"Bene, abbiamo bisogno di fratello più leale. The Templar hold on the brotherhood is strong here, we will need your help bella donna." My father smiled at her, and nodded approvingly at me. I placed my fist on my chest and bowed low, "Grazie Mentore."

I watched Adelaide do double takes between my fathers face and mine, only to see my fathers face copied exactly into mine aside from my icy eyes which were my mothers. I only referred to my father as Mentore since we met up with him, I acted coldly towards him, still fuming that he had lied to me for so long.

At night Adelaide and I were laying in my bed that I shared with Masyam, I tried to shake her off, I fancied her I knew that much but I was exhausted and had a lot on my mind. I sat up in bed and watched Adelaide drift off to sleep. Once I was sure she was asleep I crept out of the room we were sharing and went to the roof of the building. I sat on the terracotta tiles and stared at the sky, it was a beautiful arrangement of reds, oranges, pinks, and blacks. I sighed and leaned against the chimney, "Masyam, forgive me." I whispered aimlessly to the sky. I heard faint footsteps approaching me and not long after a hand on my shoulder, giving it a tight squeeze. I turned to see my father before me, I bowed low averting my eyes, "Father forgive me, I was harsh and I did compromise the brotherhood, I made a mistake coming here, I don't know why I'm here or how we're going to help Mother." I lightly sobbed as my father pulled me into a tight embrace, "Gavino, I am the one who should be apologising, I should not have kept your mothers survival from you and your sister, I sent out a letter to your sister telling her the whole truth, you have opened my eyes to a compromised brotherhood that we must fix together as a family. You are my fratello and my son, I only feared for your safety. I know that you are safe and smart, you managed to evade me for days, I have no doubt of your skills, I am proud of you son, get some rest, we have a lot of work to start tomorrow, you will start to train Adelaide in the skills of the courtesans first. She must know how to survive, then simple knife work. We'll determine how far her training will go after that."

I nodded as my father broke the hug, and followed him down to the rooms, I sidled up to Adelaide and fell asleep calmly with my mind at rest.