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RE Me and Duke - A princess for a price It should take about three months. Thats how long we want to contract you for, and it should cover all the time from reconnaissance, planning, and even the capture and drop off. The dark figure in the room sat opposite of the assassin, face hidden underneath the shadow of her hooded cloak. At the back of the room were a pair of heavily armed men, no doubt this figures escorts. If this woman could afford and needed these escorts then he must have been important or at the very least a noblewoman who needed the protection of two men in full plate while in the room with an assassin. At least the assassin was kind enough to pull his black hood down and reveal himself to the one who was contracting him, red eyes stared forward while black hair was tied back in a ponytail. The youthful face stared at her with an inquisitive look. You ask for me to bring her in alive, wouldnt killing her gain you the same thing if you want her out of the way? The cloaked female shook her head and inched a little closer as she leaned into the table. The princess is good to me out of the way, but not dead. Itll help me influence her father more if he is distracted looking for his daughter. Oh. So she was someone close to the king. Interesting. Standing, the guards placed their hands on the blades before the assassin raised his right hand. Equipped onto the hand was a clawed gauntlet with terraced plates running up the forearm, and inset into the center of the palm was a jewel that seemed to send lines of power running throughout the arcane engravings in it. Tsk tsk. No need for that gentlemen. If I wanted to kill your mistress shed already be dead and you along with her. His attention then returned to the figure seated before him. As for you, my lady. I will get her and deliver her to the place you have requested. A royal however, is triple the fee since you want the princess and you want her alive. She smiled under the hood and reached over and shook hands with the assassin all the while knowing exactly what she was going to embroil him in. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Two months of preparation had gone by and he had picked out a perfect winter night to move in on the palace. All the guards were more concerned with keeping themselves warm out on the walls than they were worried about an intruder. Snow was still falling and the assassin had easily infiltrated past the palace walls and was making his way towards the keep. He kept his magic powered down to avoid drawing any attention to the orb in his right hand. Hiding behind a stack of crates in the courtyard he quickly pulled a passing guard and silenced him with a blade to the throat bypassing most of the plate to dispatch him. Twisting and turning through hidden passages within the castle, the assassin made his way into the royal baths. He knew that the princess usually took her bath around this time and it would be as good as any of a moment to collect her. The escorts would be few, and her guards would not be allowed anywhere near the baths. Silently he pulled himself into an alcove within the baths, his eyes trained on entrance waiting for the right moment to strike.