'The Lady'<em>Assassin of Honor, Reputation and Name</em><br/>Location: Thorn & Talon: 'The Chapel'<br/>Tagging:Vulra, Xinshin Everyone else<br/>Spells active:<br/><hr/><div class="floatright"> (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/bb/a4/7d/bba47d9e8f44faba3779fe6fbb0c5fd3.jpg)</div><br/>"Don't make promises..unless you want to keep them. I wish I hadn't had a dalliance planned..we'd see to it tonight." The Lady teased back as she matched Vulra's lips in the kiss, hinting by the touch of her painted lips to something more to be attained..if one knew how. She smiled as she slipped out of the kiss, a sly twinkle in her eye and she watched the other assassin leave with an appreciative gave on Vulra's form.<br/><br/>Sitting down, she swiftly wrote out.a small pile of missives. Instructions to this or that agent, ally, thrall or simple court gossip. Knowing how to put the right words in the wrong mouth at the right time was a science and art, the court had a thousand daggers poised to kill any person's virtue, honor and reputation for their own gain.<br/><br/>The trick was coordinating them to strike in ways and times that led the victim to think it was mere happenstance and rumor rather than by design. She handed off the notes, letters  and even coded messages to her unseen sservants to pass on to the building servants to pass to messengers that would get them to their final destinations. She would of course start the attack with the weapons at hand, but she was mostly asking for information on the Stonethrush and his order. She knew the order was a righteous one, but what 'warts' did it hide under it's shining public image? Hubris, wrath and pride were easy targets among the righteous as she well knew. She needed to find out more about Sir Stonethrush's personal weaknesses before moving further.<br/><br/>Knowing a weakness made even a stalwart champion of good and law like a paladin into something that could be used. For example, her dalliance for the evening was a paladin. Lady Callidence was not your usual paladin sworn to an order build on chivalry and crusading heritage, she was an aasimar who had come into her heritage as a teen. She was a worshiper of the goddess of beauty; she had converted in her mid-20s from a simple street duelist to a judicial champion of an uncommon sort, her lethal grace and precision with a rapier let her undo foes many times stronger than herself. A self taught paladin, she wasn't as formally trained in her powers of faith but as the founder of the 'Twinkling blade' school she was a well known swordsman and teacher.<br/><br/>The Lady sat back and considered things. Lady Callidence was considered an 'upstart' in many social corners. Strong in faith but short in formal training, openly favoring women, nearly titled (earned thru action rather than heritage to boot), committed to both law and justice while avoiding any ties to the any order of paladins out there. In short, she was almost perfect for turning the small group of duelists/assassins who had betrayed their contract to the Lady into mince.<br/><br/>The trick was getting the swashbuckling paladin into conflict with the renegade duelists in such a way that Sir Stonethrush backed the renegades till such time as it could be revealed they were 'assassins' and he was openly attacking another paladin.<br/><br/>"Xinshi..could you deliver a message to Sir Stonethrush? I would imagine that sometime tomorrow that he should become aware that the mistress of the 'Twinkling Blade' school killed a handful of 'Steel Rose' duelists over an exaggerated slight. A mistress of the blade killing oh.. four or five first year students should make him curious enough to see how this 'renegade' paladin might have fallen."  She smiled artfully. "If you wish, it would give you a chance to examine him up close if you like."