Sigil: City of Doors

This was not the first time he would ever do something like this. Probably was not the last either. But one way or another, he would get some answers out of that devil.

Set me up will you, he thought with a grimace. The clothes were old, and something he did not ever think to wear again. The mask painted red to hid the telltale blue color fit neatly over his head. It fastened properly in place with grey mottled cowl and darkly died linens wrapped around his head and shoulders. The garb of the assassin was something he thought to leave long ago.

Tonight was a special hunt, the kind his master would be proud. "Finally living up to your potential," he would have said. If he were still alive. Jin hoped he really was. But that was long ago, another life time, perhaps.

Jin waited far passed the darkening of the sky, before heading out. It was more about not drawing attention to himself. He knew where the green devil was often seen. He would start there. He was going to find him, torture him, get what he could from the creature, and then kill it.

As the spire light fades in the bazzar it casts long shadows. All around Jin can hear and see merchants packing up their goods and stalls whilst even at this late hour new ones set up shop. The cage never sleep.

Jin makes his way past a row of smart terraced houses. A tiefling woman in yellow stands outside one of them smoking a dog earred roll up and across the market square Jin hears a merchant shout.

"Fruit and veg! Fresh fruit and veg! Picked this morning in Aborea!"

He finds the spot near the portal to the grey waste where his mark is usually found. Only tiday the Ashabi is not there. Instead a woman in dark armour leans against the wall judging from her expression she has been waiting for some time.

There was only one way to deal with something so unexpected.

Jin wandered passed the woman, giving her an look up and down. He waved as he walked by. Just to see how she reacted.

"Hey, Lady," he said through the mask. "You waiting for tall, green, and not here , too?"

She looks Jin up and down and he feels himself being sized up as if he were a piece of meat for a meal.

"If you mean the Ashabi I am. He owes me some jink."

"Well that does explain the rather perturbed look about you. Same feelings here. When you last see the Abashi?"

"About an hour ago. He hired me to take some stone tablets up to a temple on Mercuria. The locals where less than happy but I dealt with them. Its not that I don't enjoy my work but my companions died. He needs to pay up."

"Told you, same thing as you. Its not really like a Devil to neg on his deals though. Rather odd, don't you think?"

She looks at him for a few moments her expression blank and hard to read it is unsure as to whether she trusts him or she simply does not care if he is lying or not.

"You take the stalls on the left. I'll take the ones on the right."

As he asks around the market Jin would learn that what he has heard appears to be true. Hiwever other than that the devil was here a few hours ago and then he left in a hurry is all anyine will tell him. That is until he gets to the weapons stall run by the erinyes Jezibel.

She grins her tounge licking over a set of fanged teeth as she looks him up and down.

"I know him. I know where he has probably gone. I have the dark about the berk, but what do you have for me?"