Rayne tensed as she was grabbed from behind. She cursed a bit, quickly glancing behind to see who had snuck up on her. Of course, the voice and familiar face put her at ease. She let out a small sigh. "In my defense, I knew you were here and decided to let you do what you liked." she tried, smiling. She needed to be a bit better on not getting snuck up on. Smirking, she held up her basket as she replied. "Finished going into the forest to make some new experiments." It was her profession. She had to get some more education on some more things so she could actually be more useful of course. Lowering the basket down to her side once more, she hugged back. "How are you?"

Kale, with all the tears in her eyes she could muster, looked up at the woman and pretended to wipe a stuffy nose. "I caught him lying in bed with my sister about a week ago and he just wont quite trying to make it up to me." She pretended to cry again. "My own sister! I cant forgive that! Its just... i need to find a place to stay that he doesnt know of you know? Just one night." She sighed a heartfelt sorrowful sigh. "I just wish i knew someone he didnt that could shelter me." The tears started to flow and she started to cry once more. "But he knows everyone here and the nearest town is about a days ride out. Its hopeless... hopeless i tell you" She put her head down again. The plan was that the woman take her home with her so that she could supposedly hide from her husband. Hopefully the pill would keep working. The men around them were laughing at the predicament they believed she was in. It was all pretty manly around the two of them and of course the sorrow of a woman despairing over a cheating man was always funny to them.

(sorry for my absence. This might happen quite often so please dont be mad at me if it does.)

Selena smiled as she let her go so that they could talk to each other face to face rather then her talking to her from behind since that was how she had attached her from. "Ray, don't you try to fool me. After all i am your teacher." she said to her, teasing as she laughed a bit, petting her hair before she got a sad look as she thought about the question that she had asked her. "I am doing fine. Jerik is going on a trip so i guess i feel a bit lonely and i have to interact and be around people alone for the first time so it is going to be a new experience. well you better be careful with those experiments." she said to her as she took the basket and looked into it, using her nail to move them just in case they were poisonous to her.

She smiled, somewhat sheepishly. "True. Well I think that is why I am still learning." she joked, straightening up once she was let go. Looking around for the taller male, Rayne was surprised to learn the other teacher was not there. "Is that what happened?" she asked, looking a tad bit concerned. She hardly ever saw the two separated. Miyuki always tagged along him. At least, most of the time. It was rare when he took missions by himself. Offering a smile, she looked at Miyuki. "I will be careful. I know my stuff. If you want, I can always be available for whenever you feel a bit odd." It was a good thing, in a way to have Miyuki away from her friend. To see how she would cope being away from him. Some of the plants were not poisonous unless ground up, or added with other things. Some were odd flowers she had found and researched. "Careful with the dark green branches. they're coated with some poison I got from some animal." she warned.

"Don't worry i will teach you." Selena said to her as she smiled, being careful before handing the basket back towards Rayne so that she could continue to do what she was doing with it. "Yes, he went on a trip so now i need to cope i guess." she said to her as she fixed her brown hair, pushing her glasses up her nose when they started to slip once more as she looked towards Jerik's home. "I would like that.....maybe you could come and eat meals with me also." she said to her as she smiled, she never really ate a meal alone and this was all going to be very hard and she was trying hard to cope with it. "Well good thing that i have healing abilities."

(Everyone, be sure to check the updates on the first page...)

Kar frowned, his thinking cap obviously on. His eyes darkened just the slightest and the voice deepened just a little. "That's not good. It means somebody doesn't want us to read whats there. Who do you think would do that?" His frown deepens. He grabs a couple books he had put aside and showed them to her, all with identical vandalism. "I found that in these as well. Maybe we should tell the librarian about it. Let's put them in a pile, finish the rest and see if we can't find anything on what you are. If we can't, I bet anything those pages contained the information we're seeking." Suddenly he smiled and his eyes and voice went back to normal. "No worries, though, Sweets. We find somethin' bout ya, no doubt about it."

The woman put an awkward arm around the young assassin's shoulders. "There, there. We'll find you somewhere to go. Come along. Let's get away from all these men." The glare the woman gave the surrounding male folk shut them up until they were out of sight. The scar only made her look scarier. Once they were outside, the woman lead Kale towards more the center of town. "I think i might know a place. For some insane reason, this town has a shelter for women. You live here and you don't know about it?"

Omut slipped from shadow to shadow, following the women. He was utterly silent, not a sound or even a whisper of movement, apparently one with the darkness.

(( Newbie says hi! Also, I really hope I did okay with this; iunno really what I'm doing. ^^;; ))

Dante smiled to himself, holding up the dark red, velvet purse to the light. Golden tassles, expertly embroidered... The thing itself would make for quite the profit in the marketplace, and the money inside it would be even better.
He slipped the item into his pants pocket and ducked out of the alleyway he had been hiding in. He didn't do a perfect job stealing it, to say the least, and the man he'd pickpocketed had caught wind of his theft just as he was leaving the tavern. So he'd been forced to run, and find the most convenient hiding space- which happened to be a little alley between two tan-colored buildings.
His feet made a quiet clack on the cobblestone streets as he walked, head held high, probably more proud of his crookery than he should have been. The coins in the purse let out a muffled rattle with every step, along with the clanking of his bracelets as they banged together.
Finally, after about ten minutes more walking, he found himself at Moartea lui uşă his home for the past eight years and assassin headquarters. He slipped in, quietly closing the door behind him. Heading up a flight of stairs, and down a corridor, he stopped before a door.
He turned the knob and opened it; he quarters were completely untouched since he left. Everything was in it's proper place scattered along the floor. He smiled, pulled a few coins from the purse, and threw it onto his bed. He'd get to it later, he thought, as he closed the door.
Standing in the empty corridor, a thought dawned upon him.
What now?

"What if they're forbidden? What would that mean about me?" Zoe asked quietly before shaking her head. "What about finding what reactive evolution is? Wouldn't that help figure out what I am and why the pages would have been torn out?" As she finished her question, however, she was already moving to put the books Kar had flipped through into a pile for easy access later.

If the knowledge of the Jigiegag was forbidden, it would definitely explain why she was never asked to go on errands outside the compound. Quite possibly the Emperor hated her kind and wanted them eradicated and never heard about again. The Emperor would certainly be a powerful enemy, one Zoe would much rather not have.

Kale got up with the woman like she was still sulking. She walked out of the bar with her but never thought that there was a women's shelter in the town. She would need to come up with a plan quickly. Then an idea came to her. "I know there is one, my husband was the one that set it up with his family. His mother runs it now and he is allowed to visit any time. Thats where my problem comes from. I just cant get away from him." Of course she knew that her partner was following them. This job was really easy. The woman was taking everything in and it all seemed just all too easy. Or was it really that easy. What if the woman actually knew who she was? What if she hadnt actually taken the pill she had put in the woman's drink. Of course she wasnt suppose be thinking all of this seeing how she was an assassin but she couldnt really help it. Of course, she didnt let it stop her from improvising the whole way through this.

Kar had that thinking look again. "I dun know. I guess we'll juz have ta keep lookin'." He kept going through books, making some pages that had words similar to what they were looking for.
He pauses, eyes flying over a passage. A slow grin spread on his face. "I think I found it. I juz need to ask the libriarian bout some of the words. It dun talk bout Jigiegag's but about the reactive revolution. Mayhap the lady will help us?" He chewed the side of his lip as he considered the idea.

The woman frowned. It was hard to believe this woman but...somehow she did. "Fine. Come this way then." She was starting to be irritable. She switched directions and started to head towards the outskirts of town. Once they got there, she took a quick look around, checking for anyone that shouldn't be there..which would be everyone since it was so late. Then she ducked into the woods at the side of the road, not bothering with a path but just pushing through bushes. "Your not allowed to tell anyone about this place, I hope that's clear. Tell, and you won't like the consequences."
They rounded an impossible large tree and on that side of the trunk was a rope ladder leading up. The woman gestured up it. "After you." She looked around again to make sure they weren't being followed.

Of course, Omut was following, not making a sound, even in the underbrush. He grinned when he saw the womans hiding place. There was a rickety, old tree fort in the lowest branches of the huge tree, something that most people won't notice. Going around in a larger arch, he found a suitable tree and make his way up it. Now, he waited more.

Kale noticed the woman was not very happy with her. This charade was going on too long. It was the longest she had ever done, besides the occasional covert mission where she needed to make the people trust her and infiltrate it. SHe had never actually done something like this. "Im sorry if i have made you angry at me. You dont have to help if you dont want, but thank you for the hospitality." The neko bowed her head at the woman and started to climb. Once inside the woman's house, she waited for her to appear. "I promise i will not be a bother. I can help you around the house and everything if you would like. There is nothing i could do that could fully repay this kindness."

Kai didn't look back at Atsuo as he spoke, frowning as he the thought of the boy's description. "I cannot say I have. Is there a reason behind looking for such a person? If it is important I will be sure to tell Sareen Baud." he said, soft voice echoing off the stone walls as he led the young man around a corner.

((bah, long wait for a short post... Gomen ne.))

Atsuo bowed his head, saying, "It is quite important to me, thank you sir. As to why I'm looking for her, I just need to repay her for something she did for me a long time ago."

(short post since i don't have much to work with, sry)

((Er... you could answer Kai's question. Sorry if that sounds rude but it really doesn't make much sense to me..... ))

(sorry i gave up on this rp)

(I am sorry about my absence. I dont have internet at home. Please try and give this rp a good try? :( Sorry!!)

The woman waved away the girls babbling. “Just keep quiet, and watch where you step. I have fragile things that I do not want broken.” She pointed at a chair that had obviously seen better days. “Just sit there. If you have to continue crying, again, try to keep it quiet. And if you tell anyone about this place, how to get here, or about me at all, you’ll have more to worry about then an asshole of a husband.” The scarred assassin turned her back on the woman to fetch a couple of things and to put on some tea.

Omut watched the women, his hands flying silently as he mixed and made his poisons.

(i would but i can't do anything in it....)

Kale didnt sit in the chair. Once her back was turned to her, she walked silently towards her. So silently, she didnt make any noise, even on the creeky boards. When close enough to the girl, she stuck a needle in her neck, but not before she tried to stab her as she turned around. She barely missed, slashing her shirt, before she fell to the ground almost paralyzed. With a deep sigh of relief, she walked to the door and opened it. "Hey Omut, Come on in." She said quietly. Hopefully this assassin wasnt being watched, or she would have been fucked.