In Her Shadow

[Drankathar]

Silence. The moon was full in the sky, illuminating the streets below. Most people where at home with their loved ones. Some where at their local tavern drinking themselves stupid. Two shadows moved along the streets one leading the other. Their movements graceful, precise, silent, they moved as one down the Copper Allies.

"She's good" he thought as he glanced back at her. She was dressed in his former armor, her movements graceful, each step a mimic of his own. He saw her potential, her untapped skill. Her red hair framed her scared but beautiful face perfectly, the moon hitting her face as she glanced at him, she smiled. "Lets see if you have the stomach for this life style" he thought to himself.

HE led her on deeper into the ally ways. Eventually he came upon what he was looking for. A young mugger sat in the shadows of a building in the distance. He pointed the mugger out to her. She nodded and tested her bowstring. He motioned her to the corner of a near by building, giving her a perfect shot. He tested the straps on his claw bracer, drew his axe and strode towards the mugger. "Ell Ell, wha ave we ere ten?" the mugger proclaimed as he stood up. "Seems ive gut mehself untha victim!" with that the mugger charged him. "Fool" he thought and made a dash down the near by ally way.

As the mugger rounded the corner an arrow sliced into his lower ribcage. The mugger stumbled, clutching at the arrow shaft. The mugger looked up, just in time to see the axe smash into his skull. He sighed, "to easy, to quick, to perfect" he thought to himself. "Come" he beckoned to her. She walked over slowly, her uneasiness plain to see. Something stirred in his mind. "It is only her second" it stated to him. She was standing next to him, a look of slight horror etched across her face. "What do you see" he asked her. "Death" she quietly returned. He nodded slightly "understand it my student, you will need to if you are to become the best." She nodded and looked to him, her eyes turning cold, like two black holes on her beautiful face. "It was him or us" she stated as cold as ice. He smiled slightly "good finally I see the true beast that you can be" he thought. He then nodded slightly "Come, you have done well my student"