Re: Kylie (Courage Wolf)
Kylie giggled as she was praised and hugged. Like she had said, this was a kind of killing, it was all she was good at. And drawing... terrible singing voice though. Maybe it's just how still I sit? Iunno, I've never done this before. In the sewers you cast nets out for flotsam and random junk thrown away. Always something worth saving down there. That was the thieves guild's job for the new recruits anyway, see if they could tell the valuable apart from the worthless when EVERYTHING is covered in muck. Everyone does their share, because you have to do all that before you can get to things like lock picking and pickpocketing. Things don't get really hard until you get to picking pockets. They have this mannequin covered in bells, and you have to get whatever you're after without ringing any of them. Never quite got the hang of that, but the picking wasn't hard, just practice, and of course the sneaking. Loved that. Since I don't make any noise when I go about barefoot... it's really easy for me. But then you get into other stuff, like how to keep your muscles from cramping if you have to stay in one place for a long time, or how to get around inside buildings along the walls and rafters when other people wouldn't even see the path. Really useful stuff. Kylie said, letting Giselle further into her past without even realizing it as they fished.
Several more minutes passed and another pair of fish came up, a snapper for Giselle, and a nameless edible wonder for Kylie, they were fish, she didn't know the difference. They weren't boots. You know. I bet with that barracuda out of the water, other fish are gonna pop out of their little hiding spots to eat. If you hunt a predator and take it down, it's prey usually takes pretty quick advantage. Bet if we just wait a few minutes we can pull up even more. Kylie mused, just applying what she knew about hunting to this. It was the same with people too, Take out a local thug, and business and customers came back quickly.
To be honest, I miss the thieves more then the assassins. The work felt more.... clean. Not honest by any means, the assassins were the honest ones, painfully so. But the thieves.... they tried really really hard not to get involved in fights. That wasn't their thing. And they were like.... I dunno, my little extended family down there. Always ready for a drink or just a hug, since I never spoke. But they were good with that too. Taught Reggie a bit on how to handle it all, cos poor Reg, he couldn't make heads or tales of it sometimes, it was so funny. Kylie said, smiling at the memory and shaking her head. There was good in there with the bad it seemed, plenty if she dug really hard. They had this whole little set of hand signs to speak without speaking that they taught us, let us communicate a lot more easily rather then me just pouting and flailing around until he got it right. I really couldn't speak then, I tried, I just couldn't. Gave up after a long while. I didn't speak until after..... Until after I was caught.... and... And... Kylie was starting to shake a bit in her seat, her eyes far off, trapped in the memory, screams, her own screams in a small stone room...
A jerk on her line brought her back around with a gasp, looking at the rod in her hands, there wasn't a fish there, it was Giselle pulling on the pole. I'm fine. Got a little lost there. she said, shaking her head and focusing on the task at hand. Thieves, yea. The thieves. They actually found me before the order did, all covered in blood and dirt, said I looked like a wild animal, didn't even know it was me until I tried to charge them, took a sap right to the back of the noggin, lights out. Woke up in their little Triage. They were looking me over, patching me up. Healers took care of the burns, got rid of the scars. And I stayed there with them for a bit. Order didn't want to tell me what had happened, They thought I didn't know already. And the guild wanted to keep me around a little to, didn't think it was smart to have me near jobs and such so soon. After that.... Pretty much as I told you. Sleep, train, eat, work... just... on repeat until I got this odd little job for a tiara on a ship. And I met you all. Reggie'd be happy. Never liked the underground, he was always going up to wander around the city. He'd have loved it here. All this outdoors to fiddle in and get lost in. And Dragons! Ooo he'd have lost his mind if he'd met Kaal! You have no idea hahaha, He always had those damnedable books in his hands. she continued, just.... remembering....