LuNortha (Book 1 of LuNortha trilogy)

Chapter 2

¤ Veronica ¤

The meeting with the prince ended an hour ago and she walks whirling around thinking about the meeting. No person can find her if she doesn't want to be found.But the handsome prince had nevertheless found her. Interesting!

The prince doesn't seem to be as stupid as the assassin thought he would be.How does he know about her? No person knows about her, unless you are a criminal and then you only know her name.Not even her own master knows who she truly is.' Is it really worth risking my freedom to work with the prince? What if it is a trap?

She quickly puts that thought aside and instead thinks about getting the name of the person who had taken her family from her. Once she helps the prince and she gets the person's name and kills him, she intends to leave everything behind and never look back again.

Tomorrow they will meet again and discuss their plan for the coming weeks that she will have to spend in the castle that has evil in it. She walks around and can't stop thinking about that day.

It was an ordinary day; she and Sam were going to see a play about the life story of a female general. General Cia Clake of Northa who was one of those who freed Northa from Thena. Northa had once belonged to Thena, and it was not until two generations before the present King Arthur that it became free and independent.

A joke! The kingdom that had once fought for freedom, two generations later became like its enemies, brutal and insidious. Peace had lasted for two generations and then again there was war. The assassin was waiting for her at their secret location, a café that once had flourished with people from Luna but was taken down after the war. One hour had passed and she knew that something was wrong. Sam has never once been late; it always was Veronica that was late.

Once she returned to the place she had once called home, time stood still. The first thing she saw was her, down on the floor, blood everywhere. Blood all over her clothes, all around her and her face. Eyes open, lifeless looking at her. Those eyes that had once looked with warmth and life were empty. It was from that moment that her world stopped, hours had come and gone as she had held her lifeless body, crying.

It wasn't until the next morning that someone had come to her home and found her empty with the lifeless body in her arms. That day was the day the assassin ceased to exist for the second time in her life. She had whispered to the lifeless body that she would find the killer and take his life just as the killer had taken hers.

She looks out at the shining city with hatred. From the first time she had set foot in this squalor of a capital, it had reminded her of all that she had lost. But that had changed when she had met Sam, her family, a sister for life.

She was the only thing that had made the assassin tolerate the city, its prison, hell to kingdom. ' Gotta stop thinking, can't think about the past now.' , she thinks and turns her back on the city. She has to be rational and give the prince what he wants so that he can give her what she wants. What she has been waiting two years for! It's fifteen past midnight and it's still warm but not as hot as it was a few hours ago. Veronica returns home and the only thing you see is her shadow that appears from time to time.

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The night went by without sleep as usual; she was used to the nightmares that haunted her not only on the night but also the day. The people in the nightmares had been real but later on turned to ghosts that had haunted her for her mistake.Veronica was meeting the prince at the shore in an hour. She sighed. 'What would you have done Sam? Keep living with regrets or give up? It should have been me who died that day, not you.'

Veronica looked around her apartment. Her home is large, simple yet new. The kitchen is small, the living room is large, three bedrooms each with a bathroom. This is something that Veronica has earned through her missions. Every room is lavish, with lots of expensive things, her closet is definitely filled with lots of luxurious dresses,shirts, pants, jewelry and shoes.