Anon writes a story
Weaking fer the guild was net pa unpleasant as a gene rel rule. It was when she wasn' t weaking that things became unpleasant. Mercurial whim - padded silently egress the tap of the reef, perfectly at ease between two very
steep angles of fired tile. She tucked stray [mks gold inte the heed N her cewl. She didn’ t like clerks; they always got caught at the most ? meme nts.
She swiftly crossed the first reef and paused at the edge, glancing dawe at the cobbled streets and the all lamps that lit them. He ene was leakin g up; she continued study the street and let her fingers rifle though her spell com perents. When she
m und the vial she wanted - the sides etched In specific patter ta make it easy - she pulled it aut and murmured the saft werds N the ancient ngeh, a lilting litany of leverage and leaping.
The leap that had been daunting was easily made with the potency of the spell, and she quickly creased that reef, using the thieves‘ high way to make her way the very well guarded heme the Greedy wanted her Invade.
When she arrived en that reef, she reached under cewl and Into her tunic, pulling a leather than g aut, and leeked inte the glittering crystal. These wards were much mere patent, much more carefully enunciated, and after a moment reality blurred
befire her eyes fer a brief secend and she cerld see the glimpses and whips powerboat existed In all places and times. The spell quickly settled and she cerld only catch the stray glitter N her ring and the glimmer that semen ded her bracers.
These she was expecting, N course.
or far greater Importance was the lack of any glew about the reef er alang the wainscoted g. Spells N gee rd and we rd would be the greatest threat she cerld run inte. Aside fram failure, N we me.
She quickly made her way ta the section N the reef where the winder weild be, some ten feet below her. She slowly scanned the grau eds N the manse, and the roads further out. Nothing N great interest, she was gratified to see. Apparently her
informant had been accurate, and that was a geed thing. She steed up straight and reeled eate her toes, then back ta her heels, repeating the slew realing metier three times. After the third time she felt the slippers grip the tiles like they had been
coated with haney.
Taking a deep breath, she got down en hands and knees, and slowly placed her palms against the stucco that covered the walls N the man sien. They tee gripped the wall, thee much harder since she was actually putting her weight en them.
Ca reaally she began crawling dawe the wall, the sappers' anche atme elleven g her m so with much greater safety and stealth than normal.
She noted that she steed em like a sore thumb against the pale walls, and sighed. What was It about humans that they believed black was always the celeb N stealth? Mercurial made it to the winder with em any alarms being raised, and knelt en the
wall, facing the street and carriage lane below with mere vertigo than she weild have sh ewe hanging upside dawe frem the branches eta Hometree.
Weaking quickly and efficiently - and above all carefully, because her teem were nearly Irreplaceable - she used a slid er bar and a goldenhawk to unlatch the winder frem the Inside and keep the latch hem falling dawe. It was little things like that that
kept her In the (Bren dye graces, because these little things were what got other peeple in trebble with the watch. Ire nicolle she weild much rather net be in his gem graces, because it would mean she' d get teased to the gene rel guild fer the more-
nightly rituals of abuse and tennent
steep angles of fired tile. She tucked stray [mks gold inte the heed N her cewl. She didn’ t like clerks; they always got caught at the most ? meme nts.
She swiftly crossed the first reef and paused at the edge, glancing dawe at the cobbled streets and the all lamps that lit them. He ene was leakin g up; she continued study the street and let her fingers rifle though her spell com perents. When she
m und the vial she wanted - the sides etched In specific patter ta make it easy - she pulled it aut and murmured the saft werds N the ancient ngeh, a lilting litany of leverage and leaping.
The leap that had been daunting was easily made with the potency of the spell, and she quickly creased that reef, using the thieves‘ high way to make her way the very well guarded heme the Greedy wanted her Invade.
When she arrived en that reef, she reached under cewl and Into her tunic, pulling a leather than g aut, and leeked inte the glittering crystal. These wards were much mere patent, much more carefully enunciated, and after a moment reality blurred
befire her eyes fer a brief secend and she cerld see the glimpses and whips powerboat existed In all places and times. The spell quickly settled and she cerld only catch the stray glitter N her ring and the glimmer that semen ded her bracers.
These she was expecting, N course.
or far greater Importance was the lack of any glew about the reef er alang the wainscoted g. Spells N gee rd and we rd would be the greatest threat she cerld run inte. Aside fram failure, N we me.
She quickly made her way ta the section N the reef where the winder weild be, some ten feet below her. She slowly scanned the grau eds N the manse, and the roads further out. Nothing N great interest, she was gratified to see. Apparently her
informant had been accurate, and that was a geed thing. She steed up straight and reeled eate her toes, then back ta her heels, repeating the slew realing metier three times. After the third time she felt the slippers grip the tiles like they had been
coated with haney.
Taking a deep breath, she got down en hands and knees, and slowly placed her palms against the stucco that covered the walls N the man sien. They tee gripped the wall, thee much harder since she was actually putting her weight en them.
Ca reaally she began crawling dawe the wall, the sappers' anche atme elleven g her m so with much greater safety and stealth than normal.
She noted that she steed em like a sore thumb against the pale walls, and sighed. What was It about humans that they believed black was always the celeb N stealth? Mercurial made it to the winder with em any alarms being raised, and knelt en the
wall, facing the street and carriage lane below with mere vertigo than she weild have sh ewe hanging upside dawe frem the branches eta Hometree.
Weaking quickly and efficiently - and above all carefully, because her teem were nearly Irreplaceable - she used a slid er bar and a goldenhawk to unlatch the winder frem the Inside and keep the latch hem falling dawe. It was little things like that that
kept her In the (Bren dye graces, because these little things were what got other peeple in trebble with the watch. Ire nicolle she weild much rather net be in his gem graces, because it would mean she' d get teased to the gene rel guild fer the more-
nightly rituals of abuse and tennent
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