Every night for countless months it had happened; he'd be up all night, brooding away as he crawled beneath his skin, waiting to get out. And much like Audric, Leif Arrant needed to get out to breath, lest his political duties suffocate him. And it was as it had been for countless nights before- that he'd slip away, dawn his mask, and drape himself in clothing and a cloak as dark as the shadows.
The leather armor was form fitting, and allowed easy range of movement as he crept through the quiet night streets. Though the murmur of night life reached his ears, he found, much to his dismay as he reclined upon a roof top, gazing at the stars, that there was relative peace here in the city.
That was, until a woman screamed.
He sat up suddenly, green eyes cutting through the roof tops and trying to decypher where the sound was coming when he saw the shadows creeping up in the alley way just a block away. With a grunt, he was off, sliding down the side of the building as quiet as the shadows. The men were laughing, the woman was not- and it looked as if things were about to get fiery as one of the men, an obvious mage, was 'playfully' trying to get the woman to 'Shut up' as he took the hem of her shirt and burned it with flames that lapped off his finger tips.
It was mages like him who got the whole lot in trouble.
It was time to put his fire out. He only had to walk a few feet when the fire mage would notice his powers suddenly going 'poof' as all flames died away instantly.
"Hey- what the hell-..."
"You don't suppose we've got noticed by any mordecai, do ya?"
"Damn grand duke's dogs.." the other growled.
"The only mordecai you've awaken is me," came a voice down the way and the men all halted to peer over int he direction of a man, who steppedoutinto the shadows just as the moon light revealed him to be...
"Shit. It's the masked mordecai."
The other man laughed and slipped out a gun, while the first took a knife tot he girl's throat.
"Don't come any closer dog, or we'll cut the woman's throat."
"Yeah," the one with a gun snickered. "Or I'll blow that mask clean off your face and reveal to the whole world just who and what you fucking are."