Re: Are the stars right?(Helena/Courage Wolf)
Helena listened at the proposal, and then started chuckling. "Vishnek... You see, we know another Vishnek, who was made out to be an evil man and turned out to be quite the contrary. Are you aware of the other job we're here to do and why?" Helena asked smiling. This was a proper fiend, an evil and terrible force not to be trifled with, and Helena felt excitement brewing as her blood started to heat up again. Clamping down on it and wondering what the hell was wrong with her, Helena leveled off.
Looking at Malken again, Helena did something she hadn't done in a long time, she apologised to someone she barely knew. "Sorry for the outburst, but between our current benefactor, the Church, our job, going home, and you, I wonder just what power game is actually being waged under the tables here in this city. I hardly understand this place, But I know two things at least. That I should be wary of the church, and afraid of you. The second one I'm having trouble with, because you send a thrill shooting down my spine, and the first is impossible, because the urge to burn the chapels to the ground is hard to ignore. I see people begging and starving in the streets, and children driven to thievery to survive. I can't call upon the good openly because of what I am, if indeed there are any good people left apart from the random and rare chance, and I have a hard time trusting the more underhanded because of what they are. So here I am, locked in this little limbo, wondering what my next move should be. We can make coin just as easily as you can kill us, but we make far better tools then pretty corpses and the coin is only a means to an end. You've offered a job, what's the reward."
Helena wasn't entirely sure where all that came from, but it had been level and polite, questioning but not overstepping, and carefully weighed. This man was holding cards under the table, and there was more to this job then he was telling them. Helena wanted to know how badly he wanted this done, and why.