The France Revolution

Down Goes the Beggar King

Chapter 5

La Cour Des Miracles,

19 January, 1791.

It was night as they ran pour down, they walk through an old ruin town of La Cour Des Miracles, "Mon Deu, this place gets worse every time I come here." Elizabeth mutters to herself, Arno looks at her, "Really, then where if not here, would you want to be?" he asks her, as they walk through a crowd. "Home." she answers, Arno looks at her in surprise and went to say something, until they heard someone, a voice begging someone to stop, "Please, no! I've done all I can, it's the times! No one wants to--" the poor man cries out and the two Assassins followed the voice. "His Grace doesn't care about an excuse. He cares about results. If you can't make your quotas, he makes... adjustments." a familiar voice tells the crowd, "Doctor, cut his foot off." he orders, "No! No, please, God no!" the man cries out in horror. "There you are, Le Roi des Thunes' lieutenant. La Touche." Arno mutters as he and Elizabeth walk through the crowd, behind the front. La Touche he was standing on the side as a man was being held down and his leg was being cut off. Elizabeth covers her mouth in horror, Arno pulls her into his arms, covering her eyes as she was covering her ears from the sounds of the man screaming. Arno lets go of her and was going to kill La Touche, "Oh, I wouldn't do that, look." a man tells him, and two guards walk had walked into view.

Elizabeth curses at herself as the man pushes himself off the wall, "Lovely, no? The good folk of Paris gives more money to the crippled beggars than whole ones." the man tells them as he walks up to the two. "Le Roi des Thunes sees in that a bit a trivia an opportunity to motivate his less-successful employees," he tells him, Arno glares at him. "That man-" he starts, "Has lost a foot. Now, you can charge in there, cause a great disturbance, and send all the rats scurrying back their holes." he informs Arno, "Or you can disappear into the swam, and follow the rats back to their king." he also advises Arno. "Either way, that poor man lost a foot," Elizabeth states as she rubs her arms. The man looks at her and smiles and took her hand. "Do not worry, Mademoiselle. Your beauty will stun any man from laying a scratch on your beautiful skin," he states and kisses her gloved hand. She gave him an annoyed look and took her hand back, "Charmed." she growls at him, "Take him to the clinic for a proper cauterization, then send him back to the streets." La Touche orders his men. The men host the man onto the wagon. "I appreciate the advice," Arno tells him and starts to walk. "Not yet." the man warns them. Arno stop and then walks back to the man, "Who are you, precisely? And why help us?" he demands of him.

The man just smiles as he took a step back, "Oh, I've had my eye on both of you for some time, Arno and Elizabeth. I feel it is my sovereign duty to aid all those who suffered in cruelest bondage with me at the Bastille." he tells them, making Elizabeth let him go and he circles them. "And I have a vested interest in seeing the king of rats caught in a trap." he whispers into Arno's ear and backs off. "As to my name, I have a pleasure of being Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade." he bows to them, Elizabeth crosses her arms.

"Do pay me a visit when you have tried of chasing vermin." he tells them and starts to walk off, "Oh, he's left a lovely trail. Good luck." he states as he laughs and left, Elizabeth let a frustrated sigh and Arno pats her shoulder. They follow the trail as if they, were his own shadow. Arno and Elizabeth walk along the roofs making sure that they didn't lose sight of La Touche, he then walks up to the gate as the two watch him from afar and spot La Touche walking behind the wagon, slouching over a bit, Elizabeth micks him, making Arno laughs a bit, La Touche turns around, feeling that something was amiss, Arno pulls Elizabeth away from ledge as they both laid down on the roof, out of sights and covers her mouth to contain her laughter.

As he contains this, they heard the sound of something being tossed to the ground and gates being close shut. They peek out of the from hiding and saw the man that lost a foot laying on the ground. Elizabeth looks around the area and saw no guards in sight, she then pulls herself out of Arno's arms, jumps down from the roof and ran up to the man, she kneels down and checks for a pulse. Arno walks up to her, she looks at him and shook her head. She then turns back to the dead man, places her hand over his eyes, "Requiescat in pace." she tells him as she closes his eyes. Arno watches her stand up, "Come on, we have word with La Touche." she states, Arno nods at her and they both scale the wall, they jump into the area and jump inside. "What's the order for the unfortunate in bed 6?" a guard asks La Touche, as Elizabeth came up behind a guard, covers his mouth and slit his throat, then lowers him to the ground. "Horribly burnt in a fire that killed his family and drove him insane." La Touche answers him, "A burn job? Do you know how hard those to get without burning half of the district to ash?" the guard asks him as the two Assassin's snuck through the building.