[center][h3]~ Cal Family Mausoleum ~[/h3][/center]

[center][i]Interacted with:[/i] [@VitaVitaAR][/center]

Jarde's guess was way off. Way too off in fact that he shrunk away from the interrogation in shame and tried to blend into the background as he could. To be fair, a declaration like that could mean anything. Could he really be blamed for coming up with that conclusion? Such was Jarde's rationale to absolve his rather offensive suggestion.

The Nem assassin cleared things up. Apparently, she was forced to attack the Princess since her sister was being held hostage by hostile entities hiding in the mausoleum of the Cal family. Six mercenaries and a necromancer. Well that was a problem. A person that can raise the dead in the middle of a graveyard? It was pretty clear what was going to happen.

[u]Fanilly[/u] gave the order to mobilize. The Crown Knights would remain with the Princess, as they should, while the Iron Roses would go to the graveyard to deal with the menace and save the Nem's sister. Jarde wondered how seven people managed to sneak into the graveyard and hole up there without anyone noticing. And why did they get an unwilling Nem girl to be their assassin? Probably to keep themselves safe while the poor innocent Nem takes all the fall. Quite insidious, Jarde thought. Good thing their plan got derailed.

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The Iron Roses only had little time to prepare. Luckily for Jarde, he already had his sickle weapons so all he had to do was shed his armor and he was good to go. The Nem girl was tagging along too, introducing herself as Tili Vosahnn.

Their destination was the graveyard, not too far away from the castle. Jarde saw how beautiful their graves were with the finely sculpted tombstones and elaborate statues of the goddesses. Not to mention the large mausoleums that some families had here that kept the remains of the family's ancestors. Man, these upper-class people were rich even in death. That said, a graveyard's a graveyard and walking through one in the middle of the night was admittedly spooky.

The knights were soon at one of the mausoleums. One that belonged to the Cal family as it bore their symbol, an eight-pointed star, but right now it was the lair of an evil necromancer. 

The mausoleum entrance door opened and out came an unfamiliar person. One of the mercenaries no doubt, out to patrol and momentarily oblivious to the group of knights descending upon him. 

Jarde readied. A swift knee to the face should knock the guard to the wall and knock him out. The young knight was about to make his move when another knight dashed past him. It was Sir [u]Gerard[/u], sword ready and with one quick thrust, he plunged his blade into the guard. It was a silent kill. Jarde winced at the act and was also a bit peeved that his target was taken so suddenly from him.

They were at the entrance and [u]Fanilly[/u] had ordered for Tili to lead the way. "[color=yellow]So, Til.[/color]" Jarde began as the Nem approached. "[color=yellow]What kind of welcome are we expecting?[/color]"