I step within feet of the platform as cheers ring out at his proclamation, my movements are concealed from the spell bound audience, distracted as they are by their blood lust.
The ghosts of the past flash again as he approaches the lever.
Not this time.
I burst out of the crowd at a full run, ignoring their startled cries and the outraged shouts of the guards. I vault over their swords and leap onto the stage. Moretti attempts to flee at the sight of Assassin white, but he's far too late. With a final rush, I tackle him to the ground and pierce his chest with my hidden blade.
The world around us falls away as his blood spills on my hands. The people and the guards around us are relegated to background noise, leaving the two of us to speak as I hold him in my arms.
"I have searched for you, long anticipating this moment. At last it has come, and you bleed on the very stage of your victims. How does it feel to endure their pain as your own?"
His eyes open wide, shocked by my gender. The fact that someone of his standing can be ended by a woman.
"Such beauty, such youth, such... innocence - brought to this."
"Not so innocent... as you can see."
"Why then? Why have you done this?"
"Is it not obvious? Do you not realize who I am?" I pull my hood back a bit.
"The Auditore girl! The one we spared... our mercy, repaid with such... violence."
"You, the executioner of Firenze, speak to me of violence? You who accepted bribes, dealt death as spectator sport, threw in with those Templar wolves, and unjustly ended the lives of the innocent?"
"No, I dealt death to the guilty - guilty of disrupting the greater peace to spread dangerous ideas. Assassins... you and your ilk. The world will never know peace until you are eliminated. The Templars simply offered a path."
"And my family?"
"Your father, your brothers, that... boy - all notable deaths to the advancement of Order. You should celebrate their loss, not mourn it."
"You make a mockery of everything that is good and just. You destroyed lives, ruined homes, dabbled in greed, and stained this place with your presence! Now I will stain the ground with it!"
With that I trigger the spring on my hidden blade, sending it into his throat before he can respond.
Re: The Shadow of Tuscany (Chp 1/???)
The ghosts of the past flash again as he approaches the lever.
Not this time.
I burst out of the crowd at a full run, ignoring their startled cries and the outraged shouts of the guards. I vault over their swords and leap onto the stage. Moretti attempts to flee at the sight of Assassin white, but he's far too late. With a final rush, I tackle him to the ground and pierce his chest with my hidden blade.
The world around us falls away as his blood spills on my hands. The people and the guards around us are relegated to background noise, leaving the two of us to speak as I hold him in my arms.
"I have searched for you, long anticipating this moment. At last it has come, and you bleed on the very stage of your victims. How does it feel to endure their pain as your own?"
His eyes open wide, shocked by my gender. The fact that someone of his standing can be ended by a woman.
"Such beauty, such youth, such... innocence - brought to this."
"Not so innocent... as you can see."
"Why then? Why have you done this?"
"Is it not obvious? Do you not realize who I am?" I pull my hood back a bit.
"The Auditore girl! The one we spared... our mercy, repaid with such... violence."
"You, the executioner of Firenze, speak to me of violence? You who accepted bribes, dealt death as spectator sport, threw in with those Templar wolves, and unjustly ended the lives of the innocent?"
"No, I dealt death to the guilty - guilty of disrupting the greater peace to spread dangerous ideas. Assassins... you and your ilk. The world will never know peace until you are eliminated. The Templars simply offered a path."
"And my family?"
"Your father, your brothers, that... boy - all notable deaths to the advancement of Order. You should celebrate their loss, not mourn it."
"You make a mockery of everything that is good and just. You destroyed lives, ruined homes, dabbled in greed, and stained this place with your presence! Now I will stain the ground with it!"
With that I trigger the spring on my hidden blade, sending it into his throat before he can respond.