Post by BadInfluence on Jul 1, 2018 7:38:02 GMT 9.5
His time with Gia had been... Well a dream, really, they had spent a couple of weeks together in his home... Learning, exploring, teaching and just living in general... She was teaching him how to paint, he was teaching her the tricks of the Assassin trade, very much as a husband and wife might be. In his mind? It was what they were, even if they had only been together for a short time, he knew life itself was short. Never guaranteed... Why waste time? He accepted everything they were right from the bat and he was incredibly happy with her, teaching her how to live in the sun bit by bit, teaching her how to fish as well... To garden and cook... If he had to go on a mission? He didn't want her to starve after all. Simple things at first, like scrambled eggs with cheese and ham, or pancakes in the skillet...
It was in the last couple of days he knew someone was requesting him, he was having falcons dropping scrolls multiple times a day, enough to where he was getting vastly irritated... The woman who wanted to hire him? Was maddeningly insistent, to the point he was half tempted to just kill her and get it over with, end the aggravation...Normally he would have too but Gia? She deserved more than he currently had, and a lot of his finances were tied up in smart investments, nothing he was willing to liquidate... So the huge lump sum being offered? Was tempting... It wasn't a hard job, just spike some food with Haszak, in and out... No one the wiser... It was too easy for the money and though he really wasn't fond of using poison, he wasn't about to pass up the funding...
It was a simple trip, not far from his house actually, the food captured mid-rout and tampered with... But the woman was unaffected... Scott free... And he had heard about it in person, the woman who had hired him was having none of it, even going to far as to try and assaulted him... Dr. Elizabeth Grace he was not a woman who handled anything well he could tell, because when she tried to dominate him and failed? She switched to seduction which was so seriously laughable. Like what did she think? He'd go for some old sun elf when he had perfection waiting for him at home? Hardly. In the end she was purely frustrated, she wanted to know why it had failed, and he stated simply that someone had intercepted it... Someone was watching her, keeping an eye on her as it was. Who? Well fuck if he knew, he had only just arrived, how the hell was he supposed to know who?
She was bossy, and when she refused to pay? He got pissed. Properly so. That herb was not cheap, it came from his own private stores and now that Menzoberranzan was destroyed? His stock was even more precious. She was offering triple pay now to take out who ever was keeping this woman safe, and while he didn't ask, he did wonder why in the fuck this woman wanted her dead bad enough to pay a virtual fortune? Though this time he expected the money up-front, demanding she pay him in cash, no damned promissory notes or the like... She needed a couple of days, she had to liquidate some property to get it together, which he gave her that time... While she worked? The other woman left to Arvandor he discovered, a brow rising as he watched, surprised at just who she was with... Nautilous Deathhaze, the God himself no less, what did this woman think she was doing exactly? You don't play with that man or his family...
Not if you wanted to live...
He debated just what to do about it... She hadn't paid him yet after all, he was under no contracted obligation to do anything for her, especially since she hadn't paid him for his last job...