Role

Chapter 19

Chapter 1, Slave Labour.

Training began. At first, it was labratory rats that the mage brought home from the streets. Ayik
was to kill them without spilling a drop of blood. His first try was a complete and utter mistake, leaving
the labratory a undesirable mess of blood and gore. As he continued his attempts, he began to
spill less and less blood and kill the rats faster. The mage began to feel pride in himself and decided
it was time to step up his training. He began to bring home small animals. Dogs and slave cats
to attempt the same thing. Ayik found he was able to circle a dog and kill it from behind, where was
a cat was to be dropped on from above. Ayik slowly began to understand the rudimentries of life, death
and concealment (the importance of). He slowly began to kill more efficiently. The mage was now
almost bursting with pride. He finally had the one thing he could not find. He had his killer.
As Ayik matured in to his teens, the mage set him out to kill the magi of the opposite house. Entire
Houses were then bought out and overthrown, as the mage was almost always the brains of the operation. What
was odd about the murders was the fact that there was little to no evidence of the killing. No matter
the circumstances of a magi's death, the corpse would be found and no trace would be seen of the killer. The
Houses released names and the law was put down, though none were ever found. The general populace began
to believe that this murderer would come for them. They labelled him the Shadow Stalker, as he was
as silent and as unnoticed as the shadows of the labratory's walls.