31 Chapter 31 - Deadly Message (1/2)
”Dear Hartog,
You can no longer continue the narrative of representing the poor and forgotten while the Church's forces are in town.
Please be careful with your younger members too, they might start trouble.
The Inquisitor force has raided our guild already, demanding information on a flame-haired Crusader with gold eyes and a very specific sigel. This will be the sigel of the messenger that delivered this message and who you would have noticed fits the other characteristics of the wanted person.
Please help this adventurer and his party escape Tariak.
Be careful Hartog, the Church has grown strange these past few months.
Best wishes,
Almanac the Unworthy.”
As soon as Kenji finished reading the letter aloud, he used some candle wax to reseal the letter. checking it over, you'd never be able to tell it was opened at all.
”Why did you open it?” Tenko asked. Violet meanwhile had finished packing up their things.
”Wanted to know if we were heading for a trap. It would have been easy coins to hand me in - instead they're helping us out. And I knew these two were working together! They're 'Guilds' must be just about stirring up fake rivalry to make the guild members more committed. A good idea really, we could learn something from them.”
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”Let's get going Kenji, it'll be dangerous the longer we wait,” Violet said, shoving a travel pack at each of them. It had taken the rest of their coin, but these fourth hand adventurer bags, satchels and old provisions would see them travelling for a few days at least.
”It was nice of Almanac to give us that discount. These cloaks as well,” Kenji pulled his dark green hood to obscure his fiery hair and marched out into the night air. The reason he wore the form of the boy knight at all was so if they were discovered he could lure the enemy away, then transform into another form and return. A last-ditch resort, but both Tenko and Violet knew not to follow him if it came to that. Behind him came Tenko with an Azure cloak and Violet in a dull daisy coloured cloak.
”Really, as if they didn't have purple?” She grunted, then noting Kenji's chuckling sniffed angrily and hurried along. Together they went into the already packed streets, everyone out and about, the talk of 'Warden Company' thick in the air.
After barely having left the guild, the sound of marching filled the streets. Eight of the Lord's soldiers and eight Crusaders with billowing gold and red capes shoved aside the crowd en-route to the Golden Goose Guild. Kenji pressed himself against a stone building and pulled his hood low as did Violet and Tenko. The company of enemy troops crashed on by, a pair of particularly heavy steps amongst their number.
Only once they passed did Kenji peer over, to find a huge man with raven black hair, no insignia and golden chains binding his arms at their back.
”Let's go,” Kenji whispered as the troops charged within the Guild Keep. At least they had their weapons sheathed...for now.
Winding through the streets they found the occasional Lord soldier and no few patrols of vicious-looking men and women often accompanied by a snooty priest or crusader. They halted everyone that passed by, interrogating them, and taking some few for further questioning elsewhere.
Taking the back alleys, Kenji had little trouble winding his way- Tenko pulled them into the dark of a building. Before Kenji could say a word he felt her trembling uncontrollably, her eyes staring up to the roof with raw terror in her eyes.