The Very Seen Hand of Corruption

"You have no name, no possessions and you kill people all the time?" I was trying my best to sum up what the Marked ones had told me (I guess he should just be A marked one, not the marked one, but as will become clear much later there is a good reason to call him the marked one).

"Yes it is a terrible curse."

"Curse? That sounds great." I'll admit I'm not a good person.

"Right of course, my mistake." His sarcasm notwithstanding, it did sound like a decent enough deal, minus the whole dying if you do the wrong thing part.

"So what do you need me for Marked One? I can't imagine its any kind of justice related activity."

"Well yes and no, its politics, something you probably have a bit more skill at then myself." Clearly he hadn't been able to see my whole past or he'd know how wrong he was. "You see the countries are talking of uniting again, though its not being done by their leaders directly, they are being lead by another group."

"Another group that can unite people who hate each other? They must be fairly powerful."

"They are, and you know who they are." He made a fist and my heart sank. "Their logo is of a red fist."

"The damned Red Hand?"

"One and the same, they fled the east and now here they are in the west trying to unite the broken brotherhood (they refered to the three countries as the brotherhood due to them being all related in one way or another), they can not succeed Mr. Lorentino."

"Can't you kill them for breaking your god's edict?"

"No, I'm forbidden from the politics side as I have no standing in the government, on top of that its not against the edict for the brotherhood to unite exactly, the God's just don't want it to happen, but with the interference from the east its kind of out of their hands now."

"And what do you want me to do? I can't exactly show up in the court of one of the brotherhood and demand they break their treaty."

"That's exactly what I want you to do." And with that we rode in silence, because you know I love to fume after being told to accomplish the impossible.