Thread: Bronze age: Killer and a Wolf |Lagertha x DaL|

Her hair was twisted in a series of braids, though some of her hair hung loose behind her in small braids. Eik was all the bit fitted for this, for killing this man and as she held onto the rug she could remember the little boy she had killed. Other memories surfaced in Eik's mind. Most of the people under the empire no doubt knew of what they were going against, their trained killer dogs, she was different. Eik knew the basics, though she had looked into the councilman before deciding to meet with him. A plague had once rattled the slums, though Eik had easily found out that the councilman himself had sent the orders to poison the water supplies of the slums to thin out the population. Overcrowding, no doubt the councilman might argue. She knew all about the guards he had taken from his ranks to put them in another division of trained killers, which had brought up the question why he might have hired someone like her. So she had looked into that as well. The councilmen's trained men were under watch by the Emperors men. To kill a man that had wanted to leave the guard he would have had to get the Emperors approval. Of which no doubt the councilman wished to bypass. Perhaps this man had left without the Emperor knowing, but Eik felt like there was more. Then again, she didn't exactly care. She was getting to kill someone, end another life to make herself feel alive and getting paid a hefty coin to do so. Still, this moment made her stomach turn. This should be easy pull the rug, watch the man trip and fall into the corner of the table, and if he lived she could easily smuggle him to death. However...Eik could feel something was wrong. It was like the time all over again when she had killed her baby sister. The girl had been so sickly since birth, and Eik had killed the boy who had tormented her sister. Yet, Eik had taken her sister's life as well. She could still remember the way her mother tried to rationalize the whole saying it was because her little sister had gotten some of the others sick that Eik had done it out of kindness. Eik hadn't done it out of kindness. Eik had done it out of revenge. The moment still turned behind her eyes as she started to tug at the rug, breathing in deeply. Her sister was six then, and Eik herself only seven. Two of her brothers had died from the new sickness her youngest sister had caught, her mother had caught it as well, and one of her other sisters had been the first to pass. Still, none of those people had mattered when Eik had slit her sister's throat. Her father's death had done her in. She had idolized the man, wanted to be a great hunter like him once, but Eik was a girl. Girls were to stay with their mothers and do the chores. Silly Eik had thought if she showed her father she could kill like him he might let her come with him, and he had been impressed with the animals she had killed. However, the fact had still remained that Eik was a girl, and her father had refused to let her be a hunter. Eik had still thought she could change his mind, after all she was good at killing things, and even killing that boy had been nothing. There was nothing she could have done then, with her father's death to convince him to let her be a hunter, so a killer Eik had become. A cold, heartless beast that had no problem butchering her youngest sister and... Eik's head jerked when she heard a voice call from behind her. Instincts took over as she saw the trio approach, tugging and twisting the rug under the man's feet. Of course they had thrown a knife to the man to have him defend himself, but the idiot had twisted his legs to turn around in such a manner that had opened the opportunity for Eik to drop him to the ground. The man fell, but not the impact she had wanted. Fuck! Eik hissed, grabbing the thick rope that was tied around her clothing. She pulled out the thick rope, twisting on her fists as she tried her best to run to her target, to grab him before they could stop her. All she needed to do was grab him, use him for leverage and Eik ran as her heart thundered in her cold chest.