• part 5

    With their advice in mind Blade activated the mic unit in his mask. "Tribal, I would so like a pickup. I will wait behind the blade tree. make the decent fast I don't want anybody looking for us. I'll be waiting." Blade turned the mic off and started walking to the memorial tree that was outside of town. A shadowy figure chased after him carrying a gun. He would not let him escape.

    Blade walked back with his hands in his pockets and looking at the stars in the sky while the clouds were split. He was happy that he had already found a place with that code embedded in the picture. It took him some brain power to put in a good code that only those who shared his ambitions could see. He had some trouble tapping the photo that the cats took but he was glad he got though with it. He waited.

    With a loud bang it all went downhill for Egan Gruger. He thought he could catch the reward but instead he had missed and was soon in a torrent of pain. Blade had broken his arms and was slowly bending his spine in a painful way. "Regret is powerful, its led men to do great and crazy things. I want to see how yours goes. I can feel your powerful intent so I will give you a stollen good I took from a thief who tried to mug me. Say I dropped it and Didn't bother to come pick it back up. Also I can't give you my secrets so..." With that he was out like a light.

    When he woke up Egan couldn't feel his arms and felt a chain wrapped around his ankle. The lady's diamond. So the man who was shot in the head was the thief who stoll from the grand lady. Those masks are pricy so that would be no wonder why he was mugged. So the lady's first head was the thief. This was good, as he now has more backing that the suspect was meeting with a stranger. He still couldn't move his arms but he was leaned against a tree. He staggered forward and was able to walk back to town. He was in pain but he wanted to make sure nobody was harmed.

    Egan, despite being a born a proud and willful tiger, lost his guts and told the lady the cover story blade had given him. He also said that Blade had shown him the royal piece saying that Blade had taken it from a thief that was on a streak. He knew that if he painted Blade as he had just seen him he would be called unable to work. So he did his best to paint a picture of Blade as an "above it all" type of thief who only takes from other thieves.

    Egan was believed, he knew because the one thing the lady hated was lies and she would not let you even think that she took something she felt was a lie, and he was let off for rest and recovery. So the healers worked on his arms and let them fully recover over the next few days. He was worried when put on vacation but he wasn't terrified. He felt he could trust this menace to keep from mass killing. he felt sure of that.


    Blade was in the ship and they were right above the coordinates given. Through the view screen they could see the old building without any movement around it. It was far removed form any area. there was plenty of land around so that they could build a good fort. They set down and Blade took a lot at the area around them.