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    One Shot: Terreagles
    One Shot: Terreagles
    One Shot: Terreagles
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    One Shot: Terreagles

    By Laurie Stewart

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    Thalia Sunborn is a professional assassin from the Eastern Isles. Although she is feared now by potential targets and other assassins, she was once a scrawny 16-year-old trainee. 

    See her first assignment with the Assassins Guild and her first kill. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCorvid Moon Publishing
    Release dateFeb 28, 2018
    ISBN9781386796725
    One Shot: Terreagles
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    Laurie Stewart

    If you enjoyed this story, please check out other stories by Laurie Stewart. Shifting Shards- Eighth Ripple Press; On This Day We Maen be Seen, an urban fantasy novella 30 at 30- Ottawa Independent Writers 30th Anniversary anthology; The Soul Eggs, a fairy-tale horror short Steamy Cogs- Eighth Ripple Press, La Contessa; a Steampunk romantic mystery Soon to be released: A Ring of Earth, a Terreagles Novel Nets to Catch the Wind, a Terreagles Novel A Scream in the Night, a Bean Sidhe novel Or follow her on Facebook at Laurie Stewart; writer, filmmaker, painter You can also check out her authors page at Smashwords

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      One Shot - Laurie Stewart

      (c) 2017 Corvid Moon Publishing, all rights reserved

      ISBN-13: 978-1-988688-09-1

      EASTGATE, EMPEROR'S WAY, 6515ce

      She could hear the music and laughter from her perch on the cliff.  Go ahead , she thought, enjoy your last night. I'll wait .

      The rock at Talia's back held her steady and kept her back from cramping from sitting so long. Well hidden by a bush, she could see the house and its front stoop perfectly. Her bow was aimed at the door, but  not pulled taut.

      She waited.

      Doanall couldn't keep still, dusk was almost upon them and the chit of a girl wouldn't be able to take the shot in the dark. It isn't her fault that the target hadn't stepped outside in the three candlemarks they've been watching, but he blamed her anyway.

      I can too take the shot in the dark, she has lanterns on the stoop.

      He stopped, stared at her.  Are you a mind-walker? he whispered hoarsely.

      Talia snorted, Not hardly, you mutter when you think, all I have to do is listen.

      He glared at her back, willing her to twitch, to feel his distaste of the street urchin he'd been ordered to train, willing her to fail. But she didn't move a muscle, as good at waiting as a cat by a mouse hole.

      EASTGATE, OLDTOWN, 6510ce

      Talia was six years old when the world ended.  Her father was a fisherman, pulling in the rare and expensive redfish loved by the first families.  They lived well, a roof that didn't leak, a maidservant to care for the children.

      Then a jealous competitor, believing that Talia's mother was a witch, spelling the fish into her husband's nets, went to a dangerous length to rid himself of those he felt were ruining his business. 

      Talia was asleep at a friend's house when the whole street was awakened by an explosion. Running into the street, she saw her home burning, fire streaming into the moonless sky. 

      They told her later that she had run to the house, fighting her way into the flames, screaming like a monstrous bird.  It had taken three men to drag her out. None of her family survived, except for her. The lawgivers said it was an accident and placed her with family friends.

      She sank into blackness, nothing mattered. She lost weight. She didn't bathe.  Her friend's parents refused to keep her, saying that there must be relatives to take her.  No-one stepped forward. Eventually, Talia was left at an orphanage. They forced her to bathe, rough cloth and rougher hands. It didn't matter.

      They forced baby food down her

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