[center][h1][color=00aeef]Chres Sansus[/color][/h1][/center]

[@fetzen][@13org][@Jerkchicken][@HokumPocus][@Typical]

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Chres looked to Karina and Octavio nodding in thanks. Whether Chres deserved death or not, getting impaled by a guardsman in the back would have been a death most unideal. Cleaning the his dagger and hatchet on the dead man's clothes, he reached out to Sil.

[color=00aeef][i]Sil,[/i][/color] Chres thought to his familar. [color=00aeef][i]What's your status?[/i][/color].

[color=a2d39c][i]Status?[/i][/color] Sil thought back. [color=a2d39c][i]Utterly adorable, thank you very much![/i][/color]

[color=00aeef][i]That's not what I meant.[/i][/color]

[color=a2d39c][i]Well maybe that wasn't what I meant either, so there![/i][/color] Her thoughts had a feeling of conviction to them.

[color=00aeef][i]I-[/i][/color]

[color=a2d39c][i]Can't talk now![/i][/color] Sil interrupted. [color=a2d39c][i]Playing tag.[/i][/color]

Chres sighed. Knowing Sil, playing tag could mean any number of things. What he hoped it meant was that their distraction was proceeding just fine.

Shaking his head, he glanced down at the dead man beneath him, noticing a ring of keys at his side. Grabbing the keys, he then got to his feet and made his way to the entrance the now dead men had been guarding.

[color=00aeef]"Crystal Jade candles out."[/color] Chres called behind him. They each had been fitted with a satchel carrying salt and a crystal jade candle. Chres' and Octavio's candles, however had gone to their familiars. 

Chres made to fit the first of the keys in the door's lock, but before he could test the key, the door swung open.

"Shift's up." Said the man opening the door. The man paused, looking from Chres to his dead companions. He opened his mouth to shout, in time to get a blade in the throat. 

Chres charged the man, pushing his collapsing body back inside. Chres entered a room fill with 6 other men. 

[color=00aeef][i]Well...[/i][/color] Chres thought, hatchet out. [color=00aeef][i]So much for being stealthy.[/i][/color]