As the dawn light crept under the heavy curtains Lynx's eyes flickered open, her dreams had been haunting and filled with half formed regrets but she refused to think on them, today she began the harder part of her mission here. The kill had been easy for her, but for a Daybreaker it would have been close to impossible, all those children, and to make a perfect heart shot she had had to not care about hitting the child. Which had been easy, now it was time to bank her payment.
She allowed herself to remember the first time she had met her soulmate. She'd been on the job, when wasn't she? In combat with four shifters who's mother she had been paid to kill. It was a council job so she wanted them out of the way, the extra money for their scalps would have been nice, at the time she didn't have the bank balance she had now a mere two years later. When she'd looked up from tagging and bagging them he had been standing there staring not at her but at the Night Blade, sheathless as always since the man who was to have been her balance had died during their training. She had gone instantly on the defensive and he had smiled.
She shook off her memories and went to shower, she walked out wrapped lightly in a towel to find the message light on her computer flashing. There was one new email labelled Theirry Descoudres Office but to her surprise it wasn't from Theirry it was from Hannah, Theirrys teenage soulmate.
Lynx
Everyone here is worried about Ash, and Theirry is worried for you, please send a message or come back soon -----Hannah
She continued to read it over and over again before she formulated a reply.
Hannah
I have told Ash to leave, if he chooses otherwise upon his head be it, other than this I have nothing to say. You are not my client and hence are owed no report save that one Digitalis Darlde is deceased-----Lynx Redfern
With that she lay back on the bed, this assassination would take planning she placed one hand on the Night Blade which sometimes aided her concentration. It flared into black flame, a colour it had never produced before and a young woman materialised. Brown hair curled down to the floor and all she wore was a thin white shift but there was knowledge in her eyes which held the same dark gold hue as Lynx's. She was no threat in the material sense though, Lynx could see right through her, literally.
"Hello Lynx Redfern" She nodded slowly her eyes alert "I wont harm you, I couldn't, I need you" Lynx had to admit confusion so she made a slight face "Don't you know me?" She stared hard but it was almost beyond her until she noticed the blood on the shift and the girls age "You're the Night Blade" The ghost smiled but her eyes flashed with red hot rage "I wasn't always" Lynx bowed her head in tune completely with the girl before her "I tried to write about you once, I see you all the time" the girl smiled and was momentarily beautiful "I remember, 'sacrificed for ambition, cursed for greed' it was good" Lynx smiled "Who'd believe that the Night blade writes music?" the girl smiled "I would, but then you and I are more alike than any people I've ever met" Lynx stayed silent and watched "But right now we need each other if Bran SunStar is to pay for his treacherous soul" "He isn't called that anymore, he's Bran FallenStar, and you never told me how you met" The girl who was now a sword looked at her for a moment and then nodded "Hear my story then Lynx Redfern, and see what it says even to your iron heart"
"I was born at the end of the first age, when dragons ruled under the first house which was Drache then as it is now. My name was Ruby Harman, I was just beginning to learn my powers. They had come to me at puberty age thirteen, I was engaged" the ghost smiled ruefully "When my beloved said he was going to meet me just outside the bounds of the camp that night I was ecstatic, I ran out after supper to be there waiting for him when he arrived" her face was saddened "I never knew whether he arrived or not, I was taken from there by a dragon" Lynx had to interrupt at this point "Didn't you resist?" Ruby smiled but it was sad "How could I? I was fifteen and only slightly trained, I'd never used a knife in my life not even to skin a rabbit"
"So what happened next?" she didn't sound eager but there was a slight edge to her tone that spoke of impatience, Ruby glanced at her once but continued "When we finally arrived there were two other dragons waiting to take me and he was standing there, staring at the sword. Then they plunged it into my heart and I knew no more until I touched the hand of my first wielder."
Lynx sat for a moment and then nodded "I see your need for revenge, I share it" Ruby inclined her head "I know, we are aligned but we can be further made close, we can be conjoined" Lynx studied the eager shade and shook her head "Not now" Ruby smiled "But before you kill him, before we are freed to find our own peace" It was the first time either of them had mentioned what they believed would happen to them next but there was no fear in either set of eyes in Ruby's there was something like anticipation while in Lynx's there was only a deep abiding sense of relief.
She allowed herself to remember the first time she had met her soulmate. She'd been on the job, when wasn't she? In combat with four shifters who's mother she had been paid to kill. It was a council job so she wanted them out of the way, the extra money for their scalps would have been nice, at the time she didn't have the bank balance she had now a mere two years later. When she'd looked up from tagging and bagging them he had been standing there staring not at her but at the Night Blade, sheathless as always since the man who was to have been her balance had died during their training. She had gone instantly on the defensive and he had smiled.
She shook off her memories and went to shower, she walked out wrapped lightly in a towel to find the message light on her computer flashing. There was one new email labelled Theirry Descoudres Office but to her surprise it wasn't from Theirry it was from Hannah, Theirrys teenage soulmate.
Lynx
Everyone here is worried about Ash, and Theirry is worried for you, please send a message or come back soon -----Hannah
She continued to read it over and over again before she formulated a reply.
Hannah
I have told Ash to leave, if he chooses otherwise upon his head be it, other than this I have nothing to say. You are not my client and hence are owed no report save that one Digitalis Darlde is deceased-----Lynx Redfern
With that she lay back on the bed, this assassination would take planning she placed one hand on the Night Blade which sometimes aided her concentration. It flared into black flame, a colour it had never produced before and a young woman materialised. Brown hair curled down to the floor and all she wore was a thin white shift but there was knowledge in her eyes which held the same dark gold hue as Lynx's. She was no threat in the material sense though, Lynx could see right through her, literally.
"Hello Lynx Redfern" She nodded slowly her eyes alert "I wont harm you, I couldn't, I need you" Lynx had to admit confusion so she made a slight face "Don't you know me?" She stared hard but it was almost beyond her until she noticed the blood on the shift and the girls age "You're the Night Blade" The ghost smiled but her eyes flashed with red hot rage "I wasn't always" Lynx bowed her head in tune completely with the girl before her "I tried to write about you once, I see you all the time" the girl smiled and was momentarily beautiful "I remember, 'sacrificed for ambition, cursed for greed' it was good" Lynx smiled "Who'd believe that the Night blade writes music?" the girl smiled "I would, but then you and I are more alike than any people I've ever met" Lynx stayed silent and watched "But right now we need each other if Bran SunStar is to pay for his treacherous soul" "He isn't called that anymore, he's Bran FallenStar, and you never told me how you met" The girl who was now a sword looked at her for a moment and then nodded "Hear my story then Lynx Redfern, and see what it says even to your iron heart"
"I was born at the end of the first age, when dragons ruled under the first house which was Drache then as it is now. My name was Ruby Harman, I was just beginning to learn my powers. They had come to me at puberty age thirteen, I was engaged" the ghost smiled ruefully "When my beloved said he was going to meet me just outside the bounds of the camp that night I was ecstatic, I ran out after supper to be there waiting for him when he arrived" her face was saddened "I never knew whether he arrived or not, I was taken from there by a dragon" Lynx had to interrupt at this point "Didn't you resist?" Ruby smiled but it was sad "How could I? I was fifteen and only slightly trained, I'd never used a knife in my life not even to skin a rabbit"
"So what happened next?" she didn't sound eager but there was a slight edge to her tone that spoke of impatience, Ruby glanced at her once but continued "When we finally arrived there were two other dragons waiting to take me and he was standing there, staring at the sword. Then they plunged it into my heart and I knew no more until I touched the hand of my first wielder."
Lynx sat for a moment and then nodded "I see your need for revenge, I share it" Ruby inclined her head "I know, we are aligned but we can be further made close, we can be conjoined" Lynx studied the eager shade and shook her head "Not now" Ruby smiled "But before you kill him, before we are freed to find our own peace" It was the first time either of them had mentioned what they believed would happen to them next but there was no fear in either set of eyes in Ruby's there was something like anticipation while in Lynx's there was only a deep abiding sense of relief.