• Her purple eye’s flashed in the sunlight as she struggled to free herself from the gaurds in all her 18 years she had never been caught and now this. her race were considered exotic of course that was the reason for their imprisonment

    “she’ll do nicely” exclaimed the grinning wrinkled old king “she’ll make him a man” he laughed as she tried with more vigour to get out of her tangle though she knew there was no escape. Even if she got these two guards off her what could she do about the other two dozen?
    “Chain her and bring her with us now” the king decided
    “No! I’ll kill him! u watch I’ll kill him before I let him lay a finger on me !” she screamed he glanced at her and laughed
    “I hope he like’s them feisty”
    The guards laughed along with him. the king nodded his head an in a second a mage had paralysed her she broke free with a smile on her face “you’re tricks don’t work on me” she laughed lunged at one of the guard holding her sending a ripple of magic to burn the other one he dropped and turned to cinders before theire very eyes she smirked at theire gob smacked faces she took the remaining guards dagger and slit his throat in one fluid motion. she then ran to the door before the dead guard even dropped the disturbance within the house had raised the suspicions of the guards outside who all had clamoured to the front gate the violet eyed girl smiled and ducked getting a fist full of sand she threw it at them they all roared as the sand rained into their eyes causing them to sting fiercly as she had added more heat to the mix she ran to the closest wall and began climbing scaling the wall was easy and she laughed all the way to the top
    “some kings guards you guys are can’t even catch a girl” she shouted down at the still roaring guards she continued laughing as she jumped onto the other side on her feet still laughing to herself she moved her wild crimson red curls out of her face she wistled as she walked down the path to her house

    she walked out side of the abandoned shed she had claimed to be her’s calling it a house went far but it was her home she smiled as she entered knowing that no one dared to enter her domain unless it was the doves in the rafters suddenly there was a crash
    “Oh god” he exclaimed as he saw her silhouette in the door way
    “Crimson, what, what are you doing here I herd you had got arrested or something like that”
    “Ha I’ve ran away from the king since I was 1 he couldn’t catch me then an he won’t catch me now”
    “Right well erm I was just I was just”
    “We were just leaving” came the confident voice from behind her
    “Should have known that if your dog is here” she looked pointedly at the cowering boy in the corner “you would be too” the man entered his emerald watching her
    “Now if u don’t mind drop what you picked up and leave” she stared daringly at the king of thieves or Jon as he was more commonly known he laughed
    “Doesn’t worry I was just making sure no body would steal your stuff”
    “Yeah right says the king of THEIVES” she placed empasis on the word in order to make her point clear
    “And you couldn’t have sent any of your goons to help out a girl in a tough spot could you” she continued beginning to search her house with her eyes to make sure nothing was missing
    “You weren’t in a tough spot, if anything I felt sorry for the guards who held u how many dead?” he questioned
    “only two I thought I’d go easy on them” she sighed “not much of a fight really” his emerald eyes twinkled in the quickly fading night he watched her olive skin in the fading night she was beautiful her red full lips and her purple eyes no one who saw her could deny the power her looks held over them hence why the king was so determined to get her she was a rare beauty her people were not commonly seen in these parts if they were they were taken forcefully if not willingly their magic and agility made them more precious then the largest diamond
    “Well are you leaving?” she shouted fiercely breaking jons line of thought
    “Let’s go” he ordered his friend
    “the cat will claw your eyes out” he laughed as he leisurely walked out of the door his so called friend fallowing fast in case Crimson really would
    She smiled to herself and sat down on the collection of rags that served as a bed for her she stretched just like a cat and lay down to sleep


    She woke to a rude banging on her door and then a shaky voice shouting
    “Presenting Jon, the, the king of thieves”
    What the hell does he want she thought to her self the idiot was only here last night
    He burst into the room trying for dramatic effect Crimson only covered her face shying away from the early morning light

    “Go away” she shouted “what kind of idiot is awake at this time”
    He laughed an dragged the covers of her
    “Im here to talk about your next assignment” he said un fazed by her shouting
    “Well come back at a reasonable hour” she muttered as the cold air hit her body she tried to snatch at her blanket but he was too strong for her

    “So I’ll see u later today at high sun?” he asked
    “Yeah course, so give me a very brief idea about the assignment” she rasped her throat dry from sleep she shielded her eyes from the light and sat up rubbing her eyes with her other hand Jon let the door go allowing it to slam back into place he picked up a glass of water from on top of the creaky dresser and passed it to her his eyes suddenly soft she nodded her head in thanx and gulped the whole thing down
    “Yep this is the job of jobs course I’ll go into detail later”
    “Who’s my partner? They better be more competent then that hippo you sent last time god we nearly got caught by the guards”
    “What do u mean nearly there was ten dead including the hippo any ways this time it’s me an I’ll have u know I’m one of the best in the business ”
    she burst out laughing his face showed the shock he felt he watched as she rolled off the pile of rags she called her bed tears streaming down her face
    “WHAT!” he demanded feeling offended at her reaction he was not expecting this maybe a reaction of awe or maybe surprise but defiantly not this
    “You’re, you’re going to be my partner you’re joking right god that’s so funny wait till I tell Si” she gasped between laughing even his rat was smirking
    “No im not joking! Im going to be your partner what’s so funny about that” he exclaimed his ears getting redder and redder as his anger rose she noticed the warning sign and calmed herself down still smirking she replied
    “Well it’s nothing personal but when was the last job you did”
    His face showed his confusion at the question
    “My last job hmmmmm … it was that barracks one…..no….no that wasn’t it…..it was…..ermmmm” his cheeks beginning to blush after realising he couldn’t remember his last job
    “Exactly you’ve been sitting on the throne too long an your rusty leave it to your loyal competent subjects” she said
    His face showed his outrage at the remark and he was ready to blow
    “HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK I GOT HERE IN THE BLOODY FIRST PLACE DO YOU THINK I WAS BORN KING OF THIEVES ! I WORKED MY WAYUP TO THIS PLACE AN IN ONLY 2 YEARS IT’S TAKEN PEOPLE LONGER AN IM ONLY 20!!!” he screeched sending the doves roosting in the rafter out of the windows
    “I didn’t mean you’re not a hard worker not at all I just said that it’s been a while since you’ve been on a job and if you say this is big then obviously there’s loads of danger involved therefore it would be wise for you to stay back and let us less important people deal with it cos if we get caught it won’t be that big of a deal” she coaxed trying to get him calm it didn’t do to make the king mad his own brand of magic made life hard it wasn’t good when you lost you’re senses he’d once taken her sight just cos she had called shouted at him for making her partner the retched Rina who was a something that you wouldn’t even want on your feet after that she tried her hardest not to anger him however it was to no avail as she wasn’t one to keep her opinions to herself
    “ you’re on my council if you get caught it still means trouble and just because I havnt been on a job in a while dosnt mean im rusty an even if we do get caught ive been out of tougher spots” he said coldly the anger still present on his fae
    “come later an we’ll discuss this” and he walked out she grimaced at the idea oh damn she thought now he’s all aggravated this is gonna be fun his friend followed him out an crimson lay back on her rags dragging the blanket back over her an fell instantly asleep.