"I am not a woman, I'm a god. I am not a martyr, I'm a problem,"
Aurora Vostokoff was an orphan in the barrel, like so many others. So when her sister died as well, she was stuck doing the only thing she knew that she was good at - killing.
As an a...
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i. she can't be convicted she's earned her degree
SHE SAT IN HER ROOM, STARING AT the gun in her hand when she heard a knock on the door.
"Come in," she said, "Unless you want to kill me, then please, don't come in,"
She pointed her gun at the door but lowered it as she spotted the black haired man who often visited her door when in need of her services.
He leaned against his cane as he closed the door behind him, looking at her.
"What is is that you need now Brekker?" She asked, putting her gun into the holster around her waist.
"We have a job," he explained, approaching her desk. She stood up from behind hers, leaning against it.
She had a room in one of the apartments in an area near The Crow Club and that meant she had a separate area to conduct her business.
Now Kaz would visit whenever he needed help, expecially since he helped buy her the dingy and small but useful apartment.
"We are going across the fold, and I need my best combat woman," he explained and she sighed, looking at Kaz.
It wasn't that she didn't trust him, it was that she didn't know how he was going to get across the fold safely, "Who else?" Aurora asked.
"Jesper Fahey, Inej Ghafa, and me of course," he said, still leaning against his cane.
"You wanna sir," she asked and he nodded, sitting down in the chair in front of the desk and she sat down behind it, "How are you gonna get Inej out?"
He knew bits and pieces about her past at the Menagerie and knew she was desperate to help Inej, "I'm working on it,"
"When are we going then?" She asked, putting her feet up on the desk, Kaz looking down at her black knee high boots.
"Right now," he stated and she got up, following him down the road to the Crow Club.
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"HERES WHAT I DONT GET," JESPER said, leaning against the walls. The four stood in the Crow Club away from everyone else, Aurora and Inej sitting on a sofa and Kaz in an armchair opposite.
"We're going to be here all night," Inej said and Aurora chuckled
"Rude. Why haven't they tried going under it? Just dig a tunnel," Jesper questioned with frustration.
"Tried that more that a century ago. Something, heard them digging," Kaz explained.
"It was made hundreds of years ago by that crazy Grisha, the one who controls shadow. And now they've got one in their army," Jesper stated, "General Kirigan,"
"And your point is?" Aurora questioned, fiddling with the small blade in her hand.
"If one of his kind made it, can't he u make it?" He asked.
"Have you ever put out a fire by adding more fire?" Inej asked right back, outsmarted Jesper instantly.
"What's the opposite to this?" Jesper asked, his questions getting on Auroras nerves already.
"A sun summoner," Inej stated and Kaz shook his head in frustration, Aurora just going along with it.
"Doesn't exist. Dreesen comes into town, doesn't waste a minute. Sends out a crew to steal something but doesn't specify what. Is it heavy, large, worth mods than a million on the black market," Kaz explained.
"We can let this one go Kaz, some of us have business to attend to," Aurora said, standing up, placing her hand on the table to steady herself.
Kaz placed his cane on tip of her hand, stopping her from moving, "I'm paying you, you stay," he ordered. She sat back down again.
"Sounds like a trap anyway," Jesper said, taking a sip from his kvas.
"A trap would sound easy-" he said, footsteps approaching, "-this is something else,"
"Boss, we intercepted a note from Dreesen. Its from the owner of the Orchis, says they require the services of a Heartrender. Tonight," one of Kaz's minions said.
"A Heartrender? Why?" Kaz questioned, more to himself than anyone else.
"Doesn't say. Just says they need it before midnight," the man explained, the whole group going silent.
"You don't use a Heartrender unless you need an answer out of someone who isn't willing to talk," Aurora explained, "And lucky for you, I know one from the White Rose,"
"Thats how we get this, bring Dreesen a Heartrender," Kaz said, standing up and walking away, "
"Boss, just one problem," the man said and Kaz turned to look at him, "Pekka Rollins knows,"
"Pekka Rollins," Kaz said with distain before leaving, Aurora following him out.
