Fae's Duty: Fiyero's Approach
Elphie, his Elphie, was walking out the door on the most dangerous mission he had ever considered. She looked at him with an expression that he just didn't know how to interpret, and he watched her leave, not knowing what would happen to either of them that day.
He waited until she had been gone for a little while, and then tucked the knife into his bag wrapped in one of the scarves he had originally bought for Sarima. Wrapping a cloak around himself, he followed Elphie's footsteps out the door and made his way to an empty side-street.
He followed the winding alley as it shrank around him. Eventually, it became so dark and narrow that he had to put his hands out to his side to feel for the door that Zeb had told him was there.
Finally feeling the hidden door in an otherwise seamless wall, he disappeared into the building and closed the door behind him. He crept over to the window, which cast a dull light into the room, and opened it to the outside world. The shadows moved around him as the crowd moved around at the main event and he reached up to tuck the wrapped knife in the rafters of the room.
Having completed his part of the mission, he opened the hidden door and slid sideways through it. As he made his way back out towards the street he had originally left, a nagging feeling made him stop and stand still at the end of the alley, barely noticeable in the shade and remoteness of the alley itself.
As he stood there, time seemed to slow as he tried to find out what was going on. A bunch of soldiers marched by his hiding place towards the event, and he shrank back, hoping that they wouldn't see him. They passed by without a glance, and he poked his head around the corner of the building again.
The road was cleared, so he made his way down the street behind the guards. Nobody came out of the buildings or alleyways to stop him, and he walked forward until he could see the entrance to the square ahead of him. Pausing in the middle of the empty road, he contemplated his next move.
People moved about in front of him, blocking the entrance so that the guards could watch the event.
Now came the hard part. He had to wait.