Chapter One: Silence

Silence-to silence her foes is the duty of her existence, to cut them down swiftly, clean, absent of sound. Guided by the skill of her master, how many lives they have ended. Dripping the fresh blood of her latest victims, she glimmers a deep yellow in the dim candlelight, three persons lay cold below her. They were unwise in tongue, thought themselves more powerful than they proved to be; they deserved this, it was their fate. The master wiped her blade clean with a single stroke and sheathed her upon his belt, together they had performed the necessary task.