Day 55

The Tale of Traezaras

It took five full weeks of searching before any leads were found. The search had taken the six far away from the Kingdom where their friends were being held captive. It was a travelling trader that pointed them in the direction of a camp that they believed was home to the assassins. Lait came up with the idea to infiltrate the ranks of the murderers and find out what they could from the inside, but they could not all join. Traezaras, being the one most likely to get in, left the party at dusk to sneak into the evil camp and request to join the order. Her request was to be made with a knife at the throat of their leader. What better way to prove your worth to an assassin than by sneaking up undetected and putting him at your mercy?

Indeed it worked like a charm. The assassin was given little choice in the matter as to let Traezaras in or not. Over the next few weeks she gained their trust by whatever means necessary. She even went as far as to take a few contracts, bringing painless deaths to deserving men, earning a few coins in the process. It was all shady business that her friends would not believe when they heard the rumours.

Quite soon she began to ask questions. Subtle hints to the topic at first, such as inquiring to the mood of the other killers in regard to the King who lost his three heirs. Then she would ask who would become King should he die, and she judged the emotions found in the responses. None seemed too excited. And all the time she had been there she hadn't seen any of the poison found in the prince's blood.

Eventually it became clear that these assassins weren't responsible for the death of the prince. Now Traezaras had two options. One was to simply leave the assassins to resume her search for the true killers, but this had its risks. The assassins would quite likely come after her, for she knew much about them, and she would be the next contract. She could have killed them all before leaving but that was not her way. She had done enough killing already. The second choice, the one Traezaras went with, was to recruit the assassins to help find their targets. With more eyes looking for them their time would be shortened. Traezaras showed heroic bravery to reveal her true intentions to her associates, and heroic wisdom in finding a peaceful way to leave them, while also getting them to help her cause. All the money she had earned from her contracts would be used to pay for their services.

Traezaras returned to C'nin, M'do, Enan, Vel and Lait weeks after she had left them. They asked about the rumours they had heard, but Traezaras never spoke of her time away from her friends.