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“No, this can’t be right.” Sonya paced the breadth of the room while the thief sat at the edge of the bed. “I was told it was rogues or something, not an assassin. More importantly, why would the High Council just kill a random merchant? He wasn’t shouting blasphemy at them or a traitor to the kingdom.” The girl shrugged. “I just know the killed him off. If you want more questions answered, you could always come with me and we could check it out for ourselves. I already need to give them a visit myself, so why not join me?” Sonya laughed. “You expect us to just walk up to them and ask why they assassinated someone? We would be their next targets and wouldn’t even need to be secretly killed.” She shook her head. “No, I need to care for my …show more content…

“What are you trying to pull here?” Elona shrugged. “Nothing, I just wanted to see your reaction. I could do all the magic in the world, doesn’t mean proof. Now what does equal proof is my friend over there on your shoulder.” Sonya turned her head and let out a blood curdling scream. A small black hair ball was floating half an inch above her shoulder and staring at her. Sonya stepped back and tripped over her own feet, her eyes refusing to look away from the strange creature that was floating down to the ground. It shook its fur out and scuttled over to Elona. “What is that thing? A homunculus?” Elona laughed. “No, it’s a fairy. Don’t you know what those are? Well I guess you wouldn’t since they don’t tend to be attracted and stay with people for long unless they can sense strong magic potential within someone.” She lifted the fairy up into her arms and shoved him inside of her shirt. Sonya could see a small lump in Elona’s clothes that traveled around as the fairy found a comfortable hiding spot again. “Proof enough for you, now?” Sonya nodded. “Yea, just keep that thing away from me. I don’t want to catch some kind of fairy flu or pox or whatever kind of disease that thing carries.” She could hear growling in retort where the fairy was hiding. “I doubt he could give you any disease.” Elona walked over to the window and stared outside.

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