Shadow

Finding Shadow

The chirping stopped. The chirping never stops, something is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. The men in suits are putting on armor almost like preparing for a battle. What battle could they want to fight in? They are here to watch me chirp, am I not important? Of course I am, daddy always told me I was important and special, the men in suits must know this too right?

How how silly I am, the men in suits are in armour to get me. I am so special they dress up for me, if only they knew they have no need to dress up I can chirp them anyhow. Chirp. Chirp. Chirp. Cheep, oh I like that cheep, cheep, cheep.

The dress up men took off the silver on my ankles with a key. A key! Of course everything unlucks with a key I should have known better. Daddy would be upset that I didnt know, I must be better. The dress up men or I think I will call them pups. Yes, pups like little children or little pups they dress up and I cannot call men children, pups it is. Two of the pups after taking off the silver put more silver on, except on my hands this time.

Strange, strange why my hands? Why not my neck or waist? Only the pups know. The pups grab my arms very forcefully so I do what any other might do. I let them drag me by my arms with my feet dragging behind me. It is most uncomfortable but better then walking. The pups are dragging me down the tunnel of the mines and around corners I have never ventured. Why do they drag me now? I started to like the chirping, it was relaxing in a suffocating way.

The pups drag me around a corner, this tunnel is different. There is no dirt path or rock walls that me and others chirp or mine if you call it that. The floor is smoother with wood flooring like my daddy's outside deck. The walls are all wood planks too, as if the wood would cover the rocky surface of the cave. Wood, wood, why would they waste precious trees and use there wood to cover what is already a floor and wall.

I didn't notice till it was right before me but there is a huge golden door in the way. Gold, gold why gold. A door should be wood not gold, this is a waste of gold. Only very rich and arrogent would cover something in gold. Daddy told me it was to show how wealthy one was if they were wearing or had belongings of gold. I never needed that.

The pups opened the door, and what lay beyond came into focus. The floors were not made of wood. That was good very good no waste of trees, instead the floor was marble like one would expect from a fancy ballroom not a mine. The pups were still dragging me I didn't like it so I tried to break free. If my hands were not clasped in silver I could get away but since they were I had to enduer. If only daddy could see me now he would laugh and say something mean but it always helped me get out.

Swirling, swirling, swirling the colors of the floor are swirling. If the mine floor was like this I would have enjoyed that much more than they rocky floor that is actually there. I hadn't notice but the pups stopped moving and the let go of my arms, I only realized this too late and I fell to the floor on my knees. I could see the swirling better now that I'm on my knees. I wonder how they did this? Swirling, swirling, swirling...

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After weeks of constant search I found the assassin my father wanted, Shadow. As of right now I am inside Ferrum, the iron mines of the kingdom, in the court room. Where sometimes a prisoners life is decided to either the mines or death. In this case this room is where I shall meet this elusive Shadow assassin and see if he shall become my fathers assassin.

The gold doors of the court room open to reveal the assasin and two guards on either side of her. Her! The person in the middle, the supposed assassin, is a small femine girl who looks no older than sixteen years of age. What looks like white covered in dirt and grime is waist length hair, some of it hidden under a black cap that covers the top of her head and ears.