Leliana
Shadow Assassin
Unknown Regions
Undisclosed Facility
“Yes, you are training to be assassins. But that does not mean you have the right to try and kill your fellow students. You’re all here to equally learn, until such a time that you’re ready to enter the service of our Master.”
Those had been words given to them during their fifth year, when a couple of the older students had gotten into a spat and had outright tried to murder one another. Leliana remembered that talk well, it had been a lesson with no real teacher other than simple observation. The two students in question had, despite their ‘superior training’, still not grasped the concept of zero emotions it seemed. Their violent argument had been over a female student they both fancied, as if they were in some normal school acting like hormonal idiots.
To Leliana it was further proof of how contradictory the entire assassin program was. It encompassed the entirety of a normal education, starting from the earliest and going all the way up to university. But at the same time every student was taught to separate themselves from their emotions, though only enough that they could still be used as any other tool or weapon. And more often than not, the students were capable of achieving this. Although it was not an easy struggle, nor for some did it ever stop being one. It would’ve been better to just severe them entirely, but then any assassins that came from this program would just be mindless drones. Ones only good for outright killing and nothing more.
“Match!”
Leliana’s thoughts were interrupted by the sudden shout, bringing her attention back to her current surroundings. It was the combat arena, which was in reality just a glorified gym, with lines of benches on each side full of spectators to the day’s fights. Leliana was one such person, her training having been completed in the eyes of the instructors months ago. However the facility was a nice place to stay until a proper assignment could be given that would take the assassin from there for good. It was during that time, that Leliana had begun her plan, all with the help of an outside source.
And as if on queue, the serpentine familiar that was the Nagajj slithered its way down one of her coat sleeves and popped its head out slightly.
One would probably assume such a sight to be off putting to others, but the instructors had given their students an ‘allowance’, certain hobbies and quirks were allowed per person. Leliana’s was tailoring and her pet white snake. At least that’s the veiled lie she gave when she had returned from her last field mission with the creature in tow. Little did they know the reality of just what the Nagajj was, and who was behind it.
“It'll start soon,” Leliana murmured quietly, enough for the creature to hear.
Months of planning had gone into what was about to happen. After her return, Leliana had been carefully killing off a number of her fellow students. All were specifically selected, none that could lead to an accusation being pointed her way, but rather towards certain others instead. It gradually built up paranoia, both students and staff became increasingly tense as days and weeks passed by. In total, she had managed to assassinate ten of the one hundred students that currently occupied the halls. And the ones that ran the facility couldn’t afford to just stop the program to investigate the murders, they were on a tight schedule after all.
Following that were the whispers, rumors began circulating the students and information was leaked; both real and manufactured. The entire facility was becoming a boiling pot, just ready to blow open and unleash the chaos. Which was what Leliana was counting on happening, watching as two more of the day’s competitors made their way to the centre of the arena. And she simply watched, a cold calculative expression in her eyes.
BOOM!
An explosion shook the facility. The lighting above began to flicker in response, power fluctuating from the now damaged generator elsewhere in the building. The first domino had fallen, and Leliana watched as the next followed suit. One of the spectators pulled out a dagger and lunged towards one of the competitors, managing to take her by surprise and sinking the blade into her heart.
The female assassin had been previously accused of one of the murders, her presumed victim being the brother of the man who had just killed her.
Even Leliana’s cold exterior couldn’t stop the satisfied smile from appearing as everything around her suddenly erupted into chaos.
Assassin’s were killing assassins. All the while she remained at the back, watching it unfold. Waiting for the right time to make her move and seal the fate of everyone in this facility.
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