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Liaena raised her eyebrows back at Donald in dry amusement, although her eyes had widened slightly at his words. “Oh? I thought you didn’t bear grudges. How kind of you to make an exception”

Donalds brief description of the events that led to his predicament filled her with deep unease. Mostly because she had never known Sherpa to be ‘disappointed’ about anything, or leave a person alive where there was a perfectly good opportunity to murder them and desecrate their corpse. The last time she had relied on an assassins advice, it had led to her nearly getting throttled by an undead, ghost….thing, and Liaena gazed at the little man with distrust. Was this yet another trap, or ploy?

“…Tell me about your ‘customer’, as you call him”

Donalds information could still be valid, just as long as it wasn’t relied upon in the same way they had blindly followed the hook hung by Esmeralda. All the more reason, if there weren’t already numerable, to keep the assassin firmly separated from the ‘experience and wisdom’ of her Night-Elf ‘bodyguards’, and Liaena studied the man carefully.

“The high elf, with the white skin and hair. I don’t know what you know him by, but he calls himself Sherpa. I want to know how and when he first made contact with you, where you have met him and exactly what he paid you to do”

Liaena chewed on her lip as she thought back to the ambush that had occurred down in the sewers. Donald had been with him then, and would presumably have at least some grasp of Sherpas plan. “Also, he has two creatures with him. An undead assassin and an incorporeal…ghost, of sorts. Female. Looks as though she used to be human, once. What do you know about them?”
Liaena smiled dryly at Donalds last words. “Not so much, no”

“He knows what side his bread is buttered, that’s for sure at least”

The girl studied the mini assassin for a moment longer. The man was a deeply distasteful creature in her eyes, what with that little matter of him being a killer-for-hire, with simply a better grasp of conversation and social niceties than Serphia. Voicing such an opinion would do her no good at all however, and Liaena chose her words as carefully as Donald as she looked down at him.

“Let me explain all of this to you from my perspective. I have no interest in dragging you two around any longer than necessary, and I don’t particularly want to see you dead. Believe that, or not, as you wish”

Exactly how much Donald knew about her personally, Liaena had no idea. This meant that whether or not he was prepared to accept this statement from her at face value depended entirely on factors that she was unaware of. The girl continued on, regardless.

“You said yourself that you are a blade-for-hire, so I don’t plan on setting you free while this crisis with Sherpa is still going on. But, if you tell me everything that I want to know, I’ll let you go afterwards. Your girlfriend too, even, although from the noise she’s making it’s almost as if she wants to stay”

Here Liaena tilted her head towards her satchel, from which the shrieks of Astrid emanated, muffled but still entirely audible. She could only guess as to the content of her words with regards to herself. Liaena had the oddest impression they were probably not complimentary.

Looking back at Donald, Liaena raised an eyebrow at him to indicate curiosity. A statement the man made had indeed piqued her interest. “…and ’unofficially, terminally annihilated’? By you, or him?”
“Not really” Kathlin responded after a moment of hesitation. Standing up, the girl rubbed some of the tiredness from her eyes as she was reminded of just how late it was. “I’ll get some sleep then. Can I use one of your rooms?”

-

Entering Doins room and shutting the door behind her, Liaena crossed over to the table to sit down and place her satchel atop it. Opening it to rummage around inside, after a pause she pulled out – Donald instead, this time.

“…”

Liaena’s eyes narrowed imperceptibly as she eyed the mini assassin. She had a particularly small amount of love for Donald. He did, after all hold the dubious honour of doing the best job of attempting to kill, kidnap or otherwise inconvenience her, after that original attack on the mansion that had led to her being a hostage to bargain with Rithrynn. Nevertheless, she persisted with her light tone as she placed the man on the tabletop. “Sorry about that. So. Have you two agreed on anything yet?”

The girl watched the assassin closely, taking in every movement. A humourless smile quirked at her lips after a moment of silent contemplation. “I take it we’re not going to go down that annoying honour-before-reason route some of you lot seem to have going on, anyway. You’re quite good at cutting your losses when things aren’t going your way…if I recall correctly”
“What?”

Looking initially surprised, Kathlins brows knitted together to seriously consider Darian’s proposal. “Well. I’ve already failed at my last job, so I suppose it wouldn’t be a problem to help you out now. Although I’m not trained in forensics. And you should know that I’m only an apprentice, I can’t actually say I’m a –“

“She’ll do it” Liaena cut across the other girl midsentence, smiling cheerfully at Darian, then at Kathlin. “You’ll do it.”

“Will I?”

“Yes. Anyway….if there’s nothing else going on for now, I was rude enough to cut a conversation short upstairs. I should probably get back to it” Liaena remarked, getting to her feet and brushing herself down as she made for the door. “Sorry to rush off” (This was to Darian) “…and I’m glad your dads okay” (to Fran).

“Li!”

Liaena paused halfway out of the door, to give the speaker an impatient look. “what?”

Kathlin gestured down at herself, still notably petite, black haired and flat. “…can I have something to make me look like me yet?”

“…so impatient. How rude.” Liaena sniffed exaggeratedly. “Why? What could be wrong with your current figure?”

“You’ve made that joke already” Kathlin remarked dryly. “It’d be nice not to have to go to a crime scene like this. I don’t feel like being a suspect”

“Hmm”

Rifling in a pocket, Liaena pulled out and threw a small vial, which the other girl deftly caught. “Are you going to take the antidote too?”

“….Maybe later”

“Eh” Kathlin mumbled resignedly as the door slammed on that distinctly half-hearted remark. Turning back to the room at large, she gave Darian, who was naturally looking slightly confused, an apologetic shrug. “Sorry. Long story. Kind of”
“conclusions, schmoozions” Liaena muttered under her breath, clearly no happier with Darians explanation than Fran was. Raising her voice to speak again, the girl gazed up at the guildmaster. “So what are you going to do about them then? I mean, I assume you’re planning to do something. What with this…”

Here Liaena put the scrap of newspaper on the table, before poking at it with a finger. “…locked room murder mystery thing that’s going on here. If you catch whatever did it, it makes you look much less incompetent – and gives the culprit a kick in the teeth for good measure. This feels like it was done to screw with you. At least partly”

Lapsing into silence after her speech, the girl studied the newspaper cutting intently for a couple of minutes before looking up again. “You should try and speak to his wife. She might know something”

“What? Ye think she was involved?”

Liaena glanced quickly at Fran, who was the one who had spoken, and then away again. “…Maybe. Probably not. But there are things – you should probably talk to her. You know, as a witness, at least”

“….”

“I’m surprised she’s still alive, to be honest” Liaena muttered after a pause to nobody in particular, as she again studied the newspaper cutting. “Seems like a bit of a shoddy job, that”
Rithrynn is clearly a strategic mastermind. I can see nothing that could ever go possibly wrong with this scenario.
“I think I’ve seen them before…” Kathlin said thoughtfully from where she sat beside Liaena. “Down at the docks? …Although there’s so much building works down there, I assumed that fort belonged to the Stormwind Guard”

“Gnngh” Liaena grumbled, leaning forward to plant both elbows on the table. “I don’t like them”

“….”

Looking up, she addressed the main speaker, Darian. “Did you see that champion that they had? That last hit Doin gave him should have ripped him open, but it was like he didn’t feel it. I’ve never seen anything human – anything living, act like that”

“You think they’re… undead?”

There was a very faint trace of disbelief in Kathlin’s voice, which Liaena rounded on. “Oh come on. You saw it too!”

“…I’m not sure what I saw” Kathlin mumbled after a pause. Turning, she gave the other an imploring look. “He might not have bled but Li, you could probably make something that does that. And it makes sense that he would have come doped up; they were clearly planning to fight”

“I know I’ve seen their leader before” Liaena said decisively. Ignoring Kathlin, she turned back to Darian. “Do you know anything about that man that was doing all of the talking, at all? Is he new? High up with them?”

“….And does nobody really know anything about whoever it is that is backing them? No rumours, or anything?” Liaena demanded after a pause. Looking around the table, she searched for any sort of feedback from the others faces. “I mean, you’ve basically got a guy, that nobody knows anything about, funding his own private army and having them build fortresses at strategically sensible points. Call me stupid, but that sounds like a dumb idea for the city to let them get away with it”
I take it we are waiting for Sharon to get back, as he is currently a leading player in both scenes we are involved in? I can probably manage to produce at least one post within the next...eight days.

(No, I did not only just notice that post from him, I do not know what you are talking about) >_>'
"If you ever need a commendation for your future career, you can trust the Red Vanguard."

“Thaaanks….” Kathlin stuttered finally, apparently slightly overwhelmed by all of the admiration and gratitude so suddenly aimed at her. Giving the young man a beseeching look, she gestured quickly down at the dwarf clamped onto her, before mouthing the word: ‘help’.

Kitty! Who were those goons, and what were they doing outside of the pub!?” The door flew open as Liaena demanded, her breathless face and numerous scrapes in her clothing telling their tale about the alacrity of her descent. Kathlin wordlessly handed the piece of newspaper off to her. Snatching to hide her face behind it, a moment later she reappeared again. “Is he OK?”

Nod

“Good”

“….”

“…this doesn’t say anything about those men outside. Why’d you even give me this?” Liaena concluded bitterly after rapidly scanning through the lines of the article. Moving forwards, she gently took Fran by the shoulder to tug him back from the other girl. “Fran? Fran. I need to know who those guys were, and what they wanted. It’s kinda important”

“They were here to gloat after the advisor died. They seemed pretty happy about it” Kathlin volunteered, the girl looking much happier now Fran was detached from her. Liaena blinked back at her, before reading the bottom two lines again. “…Oh. That might – that could be bad”

“What could?”

“….”

Liaena stared at the paper for a moment longer, before turning rapidly to face Fran again. “I need to know where to find them. It’s important”
Kathlin joined the other two in their ransacking of the shelves of the small laboratory, the little girl rapidly selecting a syringe, a roll of bandages, a bottle of alcoholic disinfectant and a couple of vials. Heading back to the table, she swabbed the needle up and down with the disinfectant as she stretched out the skin on the dwarfs inner arm between her fingers to locate a vein. “Don’t move, Mister. This won’t hurt”

“Whaa? Whaddya – ZzzzzZZzzzzzzzz”

Withdrawing the needle and setting the syringe to one side, Kathlin surveyed the gushing wound on Doins shoulder with an air of dismay. Wiping away the most recent gore the girl trickled some of the antiseptic into the wound, probing cautiously for anything metallic or alien stuck in the cut with her fingers. Raising a needle and thread cautiously to the jagged edges, the girl visibly gave the idea up as a bad job as yet more blood bubbled up, putting it to one side as she placed both hands over the wound as she started to very quietly murmur under her breath.

As she spoke, a faint golden light blossomed under her fingers, growing slightly brighter for a couple of a moments to peak in intensity before dying away again. Removing her hands, the wound beneath now resembled something that was at least a few days to a week old, as Kathlin reached for a bandage and shot Fran (who had since entered) a deeply apologetic look. “Sorry”

“….”

Technically, I should have sewn up the wound, or at least aligned the edges properly before I did that” the girl explained after a pause that clearly indicated that some sort of explanation needed to be forthcoming. “Otherwise…”

Indicating the large, jagged half formed scar that had recently been an extremely fresh wound as she wound a bandage around his missing finger “that happens. It’s ugly, but he can still use the arm…and it’s not as though he cares too much about that sort of thing?”

“…uh, no offence”
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