forum The Prince and the Assassin (closed o/o)

Started November 04, 2019 by @Becfromthedead group

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Eclipse shook his head slightly, not knowing how to anser that question as he buried his face in his arms, allowing Thyra to finish ith his wounds.

Thyra finished bandaging up Eclipse and looked over to Felix.
“You know I don’t normally ask these things, but what’s going on here? What did you get involved in here?”
Felix laughed and shook his head.
“Quite some nasty business, as usual. You know how it is.”
“Were you hired to off someone in this town?”
“No. That’s not what happened here. I can promise you’ll catch word eventually, even if I don’t tell you.”

Eclipse tensed at that, worried she might tell the guards he'd been there, a choked himper of fear escaping before he could stop it.

Thrya bowed her head. “Dear, I already recognize who you are. Worry not, as far as I’m concerned, you never showed your face around here.”
“Besides,” Felix said, “I wasn’t talking about you so much as I was talking about what just happened.”

Eclipse nodded quitely, carefully pulling on his shirt again, trying not to agitate his wounds.

Felix let out an airy sigh. “So I suppose I do owe you an explanation, don’t I?”
He leaned his head back into the pillows a little more.

Eclipse looked up again, confused as he took a seat on the floor,focusing on coming back from not having several types of mental breakdowns, and an existential crisis.

“If you don’t mind…” Thyra said, her voice lowering.
“Iulius attacked me for the results of my last job, so I had to kill him. I won’t be coming back to this town in a long time, if ever at all,” Felix explained, “And since you don’t know Iulius…” he shifted his gaze to Eclipse, “He’s sort of my boss. He’s the middleman between requests and us assassins. Or he was…”

Eclipse listened carefully, somehow registering the fact that he was the reason Felix was almost dead.

“Should’ve expected as much though,” Felix said, “He was not exactly upstanding. I did manage to take whatever he had. Wasn’t nearly as much as what I was owed, but it should be enough to get us out of this place.”
Thyra nodded in understanding. “I see… well, he got what he deserved now didn’t he?”

Eclipse hummed softly to himself trying to focus on not crying again. He didn't need Felix to think he was a crybaby.

Felix started to nod, but Thyra drew closer to him.
"Felix, you're very pale. Do you want something else to drink? Then you need to rest, at least for a while."
"I… yeah…. That would probably be wise."
Thyra nodded and left the room for a minute.
"Eclipse," Felix whispered, "I'm serious. What can I do?"

"I don't know…" whispered Eclipse sadly in response. "I really don't…"

"That's alright," Felix replied, "We can figure that out together."
He shifted a bit, and the blanket started to fall off his shoulder. He pulled it back up abruptly.
Felix let out a long breath as a surge of pain shot into his side, and he closed his eyes.

Eclipse didn't notice the movement, hugging himself tightly as he thought about everything.

"You don't have to talk right now, but just know that you can, as soon as you find the words to say," Felix said, his teeth gritted slightly.
He didn't know why, but he was really starting to feel the pain now. The adrenaline from the whole situation was definitely gone now, and he was not meant to keep pushing.

Eclipse nodded quietly, "Thank you…" he whispered after a long pause.

"Of… of course," Felix sighed.
Another wave of nausea had set in. He had been able to act calm for a while, but the facade was starting to fall away. He groaned softly, burying himself deeper into the blankets.

Eclipse looked up at him worriedly, "Are you alright?" he asked.

"Not feeling so great," Felix admitted, "but I'll be fine."
A wave of heat passed over him and he curled into himself slightly to fight off the nausea.
Please don't throw up… That's the last thing I need…
"I'm… I'm also worried someone will find the body and try to hunt me down…"

Eclipse hummed worriedly, "Should… Should I go get Thyra?"

"She's getting me something to drink, I think that's what I need right now," Felix replied.
He held his hands over his face to block out any light as well as possible.
"Gods, I shouldn't have let this happen in the first place…"
Felix stirred a bit and flexed his fingers, trying to shake off the numbness in his hands.

Eclipse whimpered softly, watching him, but said nothing more on the matter.

“It’s fine. I swear it. Besides, I got a free knife out of it,” Felix joked, “Wanna see it?”

Eclipse hummed, then nodded slightly, not entirely sure why.

Felix’s eyes widened and he chuckled a little.
“You do? I was joking. But here it is.”
He reached out to the floor where the knife had been tossed aside. It was covered partially in Felix’s blood still. The knife was just shy of dagger-length and very ornate. He figured he could potentially sell it for a decent sum.
Felix held the blade up between his hands.

Eclipse hummed, taking it, before balancing the blade on his index finger, then, with a quick fluid movement he threw it into the wall, the blade lodging with a solid thud, giving Eclipse a look of satisfaction.

“You can keep it if you want,” Felix said, “It’s a nice knife but I already have more weapons than I know what to do with.”
Thyra walked back in balancing a pitcher and a glass.
“Oh… that stuff…” Felix growled lowly, “Disgusting…”
“Hush, hush now. You had to know it was coming.”

Eclipse got up and pulled his knife out of the wall, shoving it into his boot before watching Thyra and Felix curiously.

"I'm already feeling sick to my stomach. I can't guarantee I'll keep that down…" Felix protested.
"We've been through this before. Drink some of this elixir, and it'll help build your blood back up. You want to get going soon, don't you?"
Felix scowled. He stopped for a second and hunched his back over.
"Gods…"
Thyra sighed and poured some of the liquid into the glass she brought. It was a nasty greenish-brown color and overall unappetizing, smelling strongly of a mixture of several herbs and plants. She held the cup near Felix's lips, and he reluctantly drank. It would make him feel better, but he hated every second of it.
"Would you like something to take the edge off the pain?" she asked.
"N-no… that's quite alright."
Felix leaned back again then rolled on his good side, facing Eclipse.