Temesca had been leading a fair life in the kingdom of Serendipity. She much preferred it to the one she had been left at, when she was expunged from the asassin's guild. It had depressed her, for a little while, but she decided that she had to buck up and move on, afterall, she didn't want to stay someplace where war and violence was steeped into the very fabric of being. She never quite understood why, but she always felt such things so strongly, and she could feel what other people felt, as well. It had made her somewhat of a loner, but she still interacted enough to not seem like a recluse.
She had been living in this seaside town, Cerenis, for almost a year now, and she regarded it as home. Granted, as a lone woman, she lived a little bit below the poverty line, but one would have had trouble noticing her tattered clothes and dirt-smudged skin if they focused only on her face and her smile, always shining brightly, and her blue eyes, as dark blue as the depths of the nearby sea, but as clear as the sky. Her long hair, which matched her eyes, was often pulled back into a long plait, with the ends swishing just below her buttocks. Every inch was healthy, not a split end in sight.
She lived in a small, one-room hovel, which she had made into a two-room by hanging up some discarded curtains she had found trashed outside of one of the richer citizen's homes. The separated area was her bedroom and washroom, though she never had much of a chance to wash. This isn't to say that she had no money--no, she had work at an inn in a nicer part of town, where she cooked some of the best meals the patrons had ever tasted. She often worked late, finishing up the last of the evening's meals and doing the dishes, and walked alone through the town, back to her hovel.
It was on one such night, a cooler one, between the cold and warm seasons, that she was intercepted as she walked, humming softly to herself. Three--no, four men emerged from the shadows as she entered the not-so-nice part of town that she resided in. She noticed them and tried to quicken her pace, but they soon caught up to her, and two of the men wordlessly seized her by her arms and dragged her to an old building that they were hiding in. She managed to let out one terrified cry before she vanished, with the men, into the building.
((Wheeee, damsel in distress!))
