Mission Impossible
It was a sunny morning. The birds were chirping, with the grass as green as ever. The trees shook with warmth, and all was calm. Mhenlo walked out of the inn, satisfied by a good night's rest. He went over to Aidan, who was looking out the front gate. "Good morning. You sleep well?"
"As well as I ever will in this place. Too eerie for me," Aidan said as he shivered.
"You're not used to being in civilized places, are you?" Mhenlo asked.
"Yeah. I'm used to being alone all the time. Just me, my bow, and the wilderness. Occasionally a wild cougar would travel with me," Aidan reminisced. "What great times those were. Nothing like it soon will be."
"What do you-."
"Hello men. Good morning is it not?" Rurik appeared from his tent, and the two men knelt in front of him. "Well. We have a mission to get to. So get your stuff, and be ready to leave in a few minutes." Rurik walked over to one of the guards and started conversing with him.
"Better wake Cynn and Devona. They surely won't want to miss this," Mhenlo said. He walked back to the inn and disappeared inside. Aidan stared off for a moment, and then walked outside to a tree. He knelt to its roots, and examined it. Out of nowhere he felt a chill down his spine, but when he turned around no one was there. He looked back at the tree and Eve was standing in front of it.
"Oh! Don't do that again, Eve," Aidan alarmingly said.
"Sorry. So, what's up?"
"Well, the prince has a mission for us to do. I'd invite you along, but I don't know if it's ok for me to." Aidan looked at his shoes for a second, then bent down and brushed off some dirt from them. He lifted his head back up and she was gone. He started searching for her, and he noticed she was in the fort, talking to Rurik. He walked back to the gate and she came running up to him.
"He said it was ok. The more the merrier," Eve smiled. "This is gonna be fun."
"Yeah…fun…"
Inside the inn Mhenlo and Cynn were waiting anxiously. "Come on Devona. We're gonna be late!" Cynn said.
"I'm sorry, but I have to find all my weapons."
"Why do you have all your weapons around the room anyway?" Mhenlo asked.
Quietly whispering she said "In case a burglar came in the room… To fight them at any angle…. Just help me find them." So the three frantically searched the room, occasionally yelling 'Got it!' and 'I didn't know I put one there' and one 'That's not mine'. When they found all the weapons, they walked out of the inn and met up with Rurik.
"Sorry about that," Mhenlo said. "We …lost…a couple things."
"No problem," Rurik said. "Where are that odd looking fellow and the white haired girl?"
"Over here! We're coming," Aidan said, with Eve by his side. When they got to the others Rurik started explaining the mission.
"Well. Our intelligence reports are leading us to a cave over to the north of the Ascalon. We believe that the Charr base is in there. Our job is strictly recon. If we get caught, it could endanger all of the Ascalonians, and it might rush the Charr's invasion plan."
"So if we get caught?" Cynn asked.
"We fight. We fight and escape to the city. We will have to report back to my father. He is going to Ascalon to warn them of the coming invasion. Everyone understand?" The rest of the group nodded, and they proceeded to follow Rurik, who started heading out the gates. When they had crossed out of the Fort, the gate slowly rose up, and closed off the outside world.
"Looks like there's no going back now," Aidan said to himself.