The leader of the Knight hall yelled angrily at one of her trainees, she was already having enough problems and another complaint to the king was all she needed…
"You threw him out using bash! You could've hurt him badly!" she screamed,
"But he touched my butt!" the younger knight argued,
"You warn him first then if he does it again you escort him out!"
The knight sighed, "Okay, next time, I'll keep my temper in check."
"Great, that's all." The female lord knight went back to paperwork. Paperwork, she hated it with a vengeance.
"Captain Xin? Mail call." A young acolyte said poking his head in,
"Fine, just leave it on the table." Xin said not looking up, as the boy left, she looked through the pile,
"Junk… bill… junk… contest… letter from Nghia… penis enlargement pill ad? What the hell…? Wait, letter from Nghia?" Xin said excited, she dropped the rest and closed the door, she opened it using a knife, it was a simple letter:
Dear my beloved Xin,
I am sorry, but I can not abandon what I am doing now, my experiments are going well and I should be done soon, however, what I have planned, I can't change… not even for you, I deeply regret this,
Best wishes, Nghia
Xin cringed as she read the letter, a teardrop fell onto the letter smudging his name as she remembered that night that seemed not so long ago…
Xin arrived home happily from the knight hall, everything was going well, paperwork all finished, she could relax; she decided to pick up some cookies before going home. She pushed open the door of the bakery and her mouth opened wide as she nearly screamed,
Red blood coated the once brown walls, patrons lay dead all around, most had gaping holes in their bodies with various parts removed, a liver here, a heart there, some were missing arms or legs and some had their heads slashed open, in the middle of the bloodshed stood a surprised Nghia, his katar was out and ready to attack, a bloody bag behind him,
"Xin…" he said softly, his katar went to his sides as he stared at her,
"Nghia… what are you doing?" she sobbed,
"Look… I can explain…" he said reaching out to touch her,
"NO!" she slapped his hand, "you monster… you killed them…"
"Xin…"
She drew her sword, between sobs she said, "Okay, tell me… what are you doing?"
He looked at the floor, "Look, I can't tell you the details, but I have to do this, please, trust me…" he said pleadingly,
"Nghia…" she said taking a step forward, then dropping the sword in defeat, she could not strike him,
"Thank you…" he smiled sadly then ran out,
Xin cried to herself, "Why…?" she picked up her sword and went home, all of Nghia's stuff was gone, except a note explaining he had gone to live in the Assassin guild. Any normal woman would fall into a deep depression, probably not eat for days and eventually become a faint shadow of her former self, but no, she was stronger than that…
Enforcers arrived within minutes, they gave up after two days, no witnesses came forward, they ran around with some wild leads but nothing turned up, they filed the case away as unsolved.
Xin resumed her position as the head of the knight hall and if anyone asked, she would tell them Nghia ran off with some woman, and if they asked how she felt, she would simply laugh and lie, "He wasn't that great anyway, annoying and he sucked in bed!" but whenever she said this she felt like she was killing a part of herself…
Xin wiped away her tears and placed the letter delicately with the others, then she resumed work, opening the door and whispering a happy tune.
Keryil walked into Homer's office, kicking aside old books she found him cowering underneath the table,
"Okay, what happened this time?" she sighed,
"Porings… are coming!" he whispered quietly,
"Look dude, porings are extremely easy to kill, they aren't going to overrun anything, anyway, I came because I wanted to know have you had any visions of an impending evil?"
"Do you considering porings evil?"
"No."
"Then no"
Keryil sighed and turned to leave, her partner, a rookie to the force, stood there waiting, "No luck?" he asked,
"Nope." Keryil sighed, then she froze, "It is coming… a force darker than anything we've ever seen… more powerful than baphomet… it will bring destruction to all!" then she collapsed,
Her alarmed partner picked her up and took her to the healing house, as he dropped her off, he stood outside waiting,
"WHEEEE!" someone yelled,
He turned to see the town drunken priest Deception running with a bottle in his butt and a sword in his hand, behind him a very angry white-haired knight was chasing him along with a monk,
"I'LL SMITE YOU GOOD!" the knight yelled.