"The ship has artillery around at all angles, its surrounded by smaller ships that are similarly armed and the guards are rotated often. This time of year the water in the bay is cold enough to kill you if you are in it for more than a few minutes. And the surrounding dock area is also guarded and staffed by the elite of the Red Hand military." Morley and I were staring at a map of a bay, it was included in my information packet on my target, one of the more reclusive members of the Red Hand council, indeed he was thought to be a God in some circles do to his long lifespan and damn near impervious nature to assassination attempts (his life previously had been attempted twenty times).
"I'm getting the feeling you are saying this will not be as easy as I hoped."
"Do you really like your store and people that much? I mean they'll all be dead eventually, why delay the inevitable?" Morley of course offering his usual strong moral stance on things.
"Are you going to help me or not?"
"Help you what? Kill yourself? Look Trezlan I figured maybe they wanted you to pick off one of the newer dumber guys, maybe even a lesser guy, but they want you to go after THE guy, and honestly this is the kind of thing you just walk away from, thats what I plan on doing, I'll just disappear for a bit, let this whole thing blow over." So after tying him to me, he just cut the rope and off he goes. That's Morley for you, he's only there until he finds a way out, or a way to screw you over.
"Forget it I have a plan I'll get in there, get this done and be a hero to everyone who doesn't know I did it." I gathered up the maps and made a move to leave, Morley grabbed my arm.
"Don't do this you idiot, you can't win, you'll die, and as someone who doesn't like you very much, even you deserve better than to die like they'll kill you."
"Touching Morley." I brushed his arm off and made my way out of his house, it had of course started to rain.
"I will not remember you Trezlan, I hope whatever they do to you REMOVES YOUR MEMORY FROM EVERYONE!" The shout was from his door, I guess he didn't care what people thought of him (well obviously he was clearly Morley still). I should have known back then that Morley would be of no help whatsoever, I figured maybe he had some secret something or other that would save the day. Turns out he just had his ugly old self and the only secret was how he keeps from disolving every mirror in his house while being so ugly (IN YOUR UGLY FACE MORLEY!). I wasn't lying though, I did have a plan, it wasn't a great plan, or even a good one, but it was a plan and thats enough to keep me going on something stupid (sometimes not even that!). And tomorrow I'll go all about my daring plan to assault a ship in the middle of an armed harbor surrounded by warships. I'm sure you'll be amazed at my ability! Well either that or you'll laugh really hard, win win for me anyway.
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