The weirdest night
Chapter 14
''So how did you get him to let me actually leave with you ?'', Carli asked . They were walking back to the inn a couple of hours after they had gone to the Palace of Kings to get her . '' We promised him that you will help in the war ,but not now since we still got unfinished business with this place's assassins . I just hope we get this over with soon .Arren wants to go to a place called Winterhold next '', Connor says . Frowning Carli stops dead in her tracks . Putting her hands on her hips she says a bit indignantly '' How could you promise Ulfric Stormcloak something like that ? I'm not a pion in anyone's game . I have rights even though I'm a girl .'' ''He would not have let you go, Carli .We would've had to fight our way out of there if we wanted to get away with you safely . Be glad and grateful we got away without having to do such a thing '',Altair explains angrily feeling a bit indignant at her lack of gratitude . Hanging her head in shame she says '' Sorry you guys ,and thanks for getting me out of there , I was really scared and I warned them that you would kill them but they just laughed at me ''. Resuming their track to the inn ,they become silent for a while . Carli can feel the tension in the air around the for ,other people gives them wide berths when they get near them and Carli knows that somehow those people can feel what she feels . She know it's because Ulfric Stormcloak and his soldiers had handled the whole situation unwisely , what if the four had been so angry and hadn't used their Eagle Vision ? . Ulfric and all his soldiers would be dead by now . But luckily for them Altair always uses his Eagle Vision when they get to a new place he says it's to know friend from foe so they wouldn't kill an ally on accident .
Arren is waiting for them outside when they get to the inn and asks '' Where's the boy?''. Ezio answers him while the others walks past him into the inn . ''The Jarl said that he will raise him until his old enough to be on his own ,he said he haven't thought about it before and had send the boy to Riften because he had thought that it was his only option. Anyway let's get inside it's really very cold here , I can't believe you Nords can take this cold without trouble ,I rather miss my home right now where its warm ''. Arren only smile about Ezio's last sentence ,wondering about Ezio's home and wishing that he could have seen it ,though in the almost more than ten months he'd known them ,they never really talk about the place they come from . They hadn't said it but Arren has a feeling that the five are not from Nirn and he wanted to ask the Archmage Savos Aren at Winterhold College if something like that was even possible .
For the first time in months they really enjoy their dinner that night . And for the first time in months after they arrived in Skyrim the four think of their world , wondering if they will ever go back and if they did will they feel different then? .Will they be able to pick up where they have left off? . Will they be able to accept their fate if they didn't get back ? . Desmond knew if he could stay with Carli he'd be fine ,but the others really had so much to do . He also wondered about the character who supposedly died in Assassins Creed 3 , he never thought to ask Carli when she told him about it . He wondered who it was since she had said that she cried when that had happened . He would ask her later about it, not in the presence of Arren though ,he didn't mind the others ,in fact he'd be glad for them to be there . Ezio was thinking about his uncle and his mother and sister , he also thought of the thieves guild in Venice and of Leonardo his friend and of Rosa and the rest of the assassins such as Machiavelli . Were they searching for him? .Did his uncle get to the vault and looked for him there ? . He remembered where he had heard the name Desmond before . Minerva had said that name . He was going to leave the vault when that light engulfed him ,he missed home now that he came to think of it ,and didn't expect to be in a different world right now . Altair was thinking about Malik and wondered if he coped without him there . And he thought of everything he had gone through, killing Templars even Robert De Sable and finally killing Al Mualim and finding himself being Grand Master of the Creed which should have been an honour but felt more like a burden . Was Malik alright ? ,was he looking for him or did he think he was dead or something ? ,or maybe Malik thought that he had abandoned the Creed . Connor thought of his home and about Lee who he had killed and then not long after that the light had come and transported him to Carli's living room and then to Skyrim .He thought of his assassin recruits and if they were fine without him . Did they search for him? ,he wondered . He hope they did because then he'd know he wasn't expendable to them .
After dinner they retired to Ezio's and Connor's room to talk about their next step .Carli sat on Desmond's lab and waited for one of them to speak . They didn't . They waited for her to tell them . Sighting she got up and started to pace the room ,she knew what they should do ,it was so obvious they just had to close their eyes and fall asleep . And then the best part would come ,they will be kidnapped , have to kill some people and then they'd be in . She was afraid that something would somehow go wrong since she told them what to do . She didn't know if it would change anything , what if it was like the same as telling people you're from the future , she didn't want to change something for the worse . Sighting heavily she turned to look at them ''You guys should go to bed like right now ''she ordered ''It's the only way you're going to get to the Brotherhood ,I've told you that before remember ,just be careful and goodluck okay ?''. Everyone nodded ''What about you ?'',Altair asked . Smiling she answered ''I'll go to bed too ,you guys aren't the only ones who didn't have much sleep ,well I guess being unconscious doesn't count as sleep ,and its night so everyone needs sleep ''. She went to bed just after that hoping that everything goes well . The others went to bed a little bit worried and a little bit excited for the new adventure that was ahead of them .
Something was wrong when she woke up . She couldn't see and she could feel that she wasn't in bed anymore . When she tried to pull her hands apart she found that they were bound .She tried to speak but her throat was dry ,all she got out was a hoarse groan . Sounds reached her ears then ,muffled sobs and someone asking to be let go . She realised then what was wrong and she didn't like it . She was chosen to be one of the victims or whatever the brotherhood would call it . Her body tensed as she heard Arren ask what in oblivion was going on and Astrid answered by saying that they had stolen a contract and had to pay up by killing some of the people chosen as victims . Carli was afraid then .She didn't want to be killed .What happened if she died there in Skyrim ? .Will she be send home by that mysterious light or will she just be dead and lost forever . She knew then that she had to let them know that she was one of the victims so that they didn't kill her by accident . Her body shook with fear as she tried to stand up . She needed to do this for self-preservation and for Desmond ,but she was scared that she wouldn't be able to save herself. She managed to stand ,and realised then that she was dressed in her breaches and linen shirt ,the clothes she slept in ,her feet was bare and the cold seeped in through her soles . She heard someone swear ,it sounded like Ezio though she wasn't really sure .Someone else sweared then and this time she knew the voice without a doubt . She cleared her throat and then said one name ''Desmond ''. He sweared again .
The five men opened their eyes at the same time .At first their visions blurred but cleared as they blinked . They took in their surroundings .One thought went through Desmond's mind ,the place was a complete dump . Ezio's eyes caught the people on the floor bound and with sacks over their heads . Arren's eyes found them after Ezio 's ''What in Oblivion is going on !?'', he asked furiously . ''You have stolen a contract and for that you must pay up by killing one of these victims each '',a woman's voice came from on top of a wardrobe . The five looked her way to see a woman dressed the same way as the two assassins they had encountered in their travels . a Sound from the people on the floor made them look that way . One of the victims had managed to stand up . Altair gave a step towards her . a Hand on his shoulder stopped him ,it was Connor who had recognised the small figure even if he couldn't see her face . Ezio sweared as he clearly did too . Then Desmond sweared as it hit him . The small figure cleared her throat and said one word ''Desmond '',causing Desmond to swear again before jumping towards the figure and pulling of the sack in one smooth motion , while the others rounded and glared at the woman who had captured their little friend .
Carli was so relieved when the sack was pulled off .She took a deep breathe before looking at the man who had pulled off the sack ,just to look straight into the eyes of the man she loved . The dam wall broke then ,she couldn't stop as tears started streaming down her cheeks . That done it for Desmond with a roar he turned to the woman who did this . He would have stormed her ,but Connor and Altair stopped him by throwing their arms in front of him ,halting him . ''You do realise what you have done right ?'', Ezio asked the woman who sat staring at them silently though for some reason she felt fear in her heart . The four hooded men looked very dangerous to her .Was the girl really theirs ? ,she wondered .If so she knew she had done something very wrong . ''Is she yours ?'', she asked though she knew the answer already now though Nazeem was the one who brought the girl with the other victims . ''Of course she's our girl ,she's one of us ,always have and always will ,you'd be well to remember that '',Altair said . The woman sighted ''Fine ,but you should still kill the others and tell me where this girl was when you stole our contract ''. Carli could hear that Astrid didn't really care what happened now ,and she was relieved. She was glad when Desmond cut her bonds and then for a brief moment hugged her .After that she was asked to go and wait for them outside . She obeyed without thinking twice though she had seen them kill before .
''She had stayed behind to look after the boy for us '', Ezio explained after they killed some of the victims ,though they only chose those that shone red ,and Arren too was directed to kill one of the ones that showed red by Connor .His exact words was ''Do kill that one , he isn't an innocent ,remember we have a rule on that ''. Arren didn't protest he was getting used to the four men's strange behaviours . Astrid nodded at Ezio's explanation though she wished to know why Nazeem had taken the girl ,she hoped it wasn't a joke on these men ,she wasn't going to stop them when they wanted to kill Nazeem . She wasn't going to tell them who brought the girl as a victim either ,that was something they had to find out for themselves . Astrid was impressed by the strange fighting styles the four had and also at the odd weapons that slit out of their bracers . She wondered who they were then , and where did they learn to fight like they did . One of them was most intriguing when he whispered the strange words of ''Requiscat in pace '' after he killed his victim . She wondered what language it was but she didn't ask just waited . ''I will be most happy to count you people as the new members of the Brotherhood ,when you're ready come to the sanctuary . It's not far from Falkreath ,I shall be waiting and here's the answer to the riddle the door would ask , Silence brother , Goodbye and goodluck to you all ''. She was gone before they could talk further , but they were glad to be done with her for now . They released the rest of the victims and bid them a safe journey back to their homes . They were glad to join up with Carli outside ,as they watched the victims leave . ''So what's next '', Carli asked them . ''We go back to Windhelm and retrieve our things then we head to the sanctuary '', Arren says . The others agrees whole heartedly . They want to see the sanctuary for themselves then leave for Winterhold to go do whatever Arren wants to do .
Bart sat for days now in front of the television hoping to somehow play his sister out of the game ,he looked like he didn't sleep for days and that was just it ,he didn't . Eduan watched his friend turn from an always clean guy to a scruffy looking man . a Day ago they had lost track of Carli and the four assassins Arren looked like he was alone and that scared Bart . Where was she ? he had wondered over and over again ,he found no answer . Eduan had tried helping him but got shut out somehow . Bart hadn't told his parents or other siblings yet and that made Eduan wonder if he would ever do that . Time would only tell . And Eduan hoped for soon.
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