The Heart Of An Assassin

Chapter 31

May, 1754
North Atlantic

The Morrigan sails the North Atlantic. My marriage with Shay has made happier than I have been in forever. But a few months ago Achilles suffered a great loss, his wife Abigail and his son Connor. Everyone has been struggling with the loss. Abigail was so kind and Connor was the sweetest little boy.

"It's so grim at the Homestead now that Miss Abigail and little Connor have passed," Liam says sadly.

"Aye, I've seen Achilles crying," Shay says.

"Why shouldn't he?" Liam asks.

"It's just that..... he doesn't look sad, he looks furious, it's unsettling" Shay says. I put my hand on his shoulder.

"It may be his way of dealing with the loss, everyone has there own way of dealing with loss," I tell him. Shay looks at me.

"And what's yours?" Shay asks me.

"When my family died, I wouldn't talk to anybody, I wouldn't eat," I tell him, "you can ask Liam, I was a complete mess,"

"Achilles is struggling with the loss we all are," Liam says.

"I know, but it's been months, and we done little but searching for this blasted Manuscript and Box!" Shay says.

"Le Chasseur has a lead on the Box, we'll meet him and Chevalier at St. John's," Liam informs us. I groan, the thought of having to be around Chevalier.

"Chevalier too, no hope in cheering me up then," Shay says, "Achilles said that whoever could access the artifacts, could access sights of great power, what does he mean?"

"I'm not sure if I understand it myself, Shay," Liam says, "I had a long talk with Adewale about that, he thinks that the Box can project words or images,"

"Like a magic lantern?" Shay says, me and Liam look at him confused.

"What do you mean," both me and Liam say.

"You know the magic lantern shows that Father Connolly put on in the church's basement. The Box had a candle in it, I think. He put these little glass plates in front. Then you could the images projected on the walls, like cathedrals in Rome," Shay explains. I smile remembering the times me, Shay, and Liam went to church and Father Connolly putting on those shows, at the time I thought they were the most amazing things that I've seen.

"Ah, yeah I suppose it is," Liam agrees, "except that it interprets the strange language of the Manuscript too, if the plate were in Latin, we'd see it in English,"

"How is that possible?" Shay asks Liam.

"Who knows, I fear we may never truly understand how the Pieces of Eden work," Liam says.

"Well what I can't wrap my head around is why they were created," I say, "the Pieces of Eden have caused nothing but pain and suffering. Look at the facts, Al Mualim in 1191 his assassin's found a Apple of Eden, and he used it to control the minds of his assassin's and the citizens of Masyaf, The Staffs of Eden were used to control the minds and bodies of men," Liam looks at me.

"You done your research," Liam says. I nod.

"That's not all, Edward Kenway, a pirate assassin, set out to look for something called The Observatory, with the help of a Sage. There were these glass boxes that had blood in them and in The Observatory there was this crystal skull that was connected to these large rings and when the glass boxes were placed in the eye sockets in the skull, you can see what a person is seeing. Even if they are half way across the Earth from you," I explain. Both Shay and Liam looked at me shocked, because of how much I knew, "what! I got bored,"

Sometime later the sun started to set.

"Were almost there captain, Le Chasseur will be expecting us," Liam says.

"And Chevalier," Shay says disappointed. Once nightfall came, Shay docked The Morrigan in St. John's. Both me and Shay get off the ship and we go and we meet Chevalier and Le Chasseur. We find then near a cliff, and Chevalier is drinking and is looking at his now damaged ship. Shay walks up to Chevalier and be puts his hand on his shoulder and be points to Chevalier's ship.

"Chevalier, what happened to your vessel?" Shay asks. I almost feel bad for Chevalier.

"Got myself into a little bit of a scrape, send about three ships to there watery graves, The Gerfaut nearly followed them down," Chevalier says and he throws his bottle of liquor on the ground. Shay walks up to Le Chasseur and he puts his hand on Le Chasseur's shoulder.

"I trust your luck has been better, Le Chasseur?" Shay asks.

"Indeed, my sources in from me that Samuel Smith has searched far and wide on how to make that strange Box work, he has just returned from New York,"

"Where is he now?" I ask, Le Chasseur tosses a bottle of liquor to Chevalier.

"Re fitting his schooner," Le Chasseur tells me. Le Chasseur hands Shay a map, "if you hurry you can catch him here," Le Chasseur points to a place on the map. Chevalier takes the map, "oh, remember those blueprints, well I had an engineer build the marvelous weapon for your ship, the guns fire more shots than a artillery brocade and twice as fast,"Shay puts a hand on Le Chasseur's shoulder.

"Many thanks," Shay says.

"Anything for my hooded friends," Le Chasseur says. Then me and Shay walk back to The Morrigan.