The brute of a man she clung onto climbed the keeps walls with the ease of a spider. He was already a naturally strong man, but his 'magics' elevated his abilities to feats most would ever dream of. Of all the men she came to work with, despite his magically enhanced strength, he was the only one (outside of her brother), she trusted the most. But she didn't trust him fully. No, she supposed She never would. But the job required a certain method to obtain this intel, and she and Vaelyn and Wrent were both the perfect candidates from their team for the job.
It was a bold move, to have Wrent climb the castle during the day. But they had scouted the area and routines of the soldiers who patrolled and now was as good a time as any to begin their ascent. Vaelyn needn't do much, masking their movements at first, but now that they were nearly at the roof top, she knew no one would be able to hear them easily.
Wrent got them there in a hurry, kneeling down to let the girl climb off his back. Vaelyn did so silently, even without the aid of her magics, but she tapped into a small bit of them when her feet stepped onto the roof's shingles.
She didn't need the noise from them setting off any alarms and she nodded to Wrent for him to follow. They chose this side of the building not because it was anywhere near their desired location, but because it was more secluded , and more often than not- less patrolled.
Now was the tricky part- navigating the roof top. The pair were a strange lot moving along the rising and falls of the taller, triangular pointed rooves- one being a slim waif of a girl, the other being a heavily muscled beast of a man. But both seemed to move with the ease of a spider, until they got so far that the ledges, as predicted, would grow narrow as they passed through a series of windows. This is where she and Wrent parted ways. He'd hang out on the roof for her return and she'd continue on, towards the towering building across the way that indicates the solar.
Their Intel provided stated the new Duke often kept quarters here versus his own room, and most of the time on privacy. The tower, built of stone, had just one set of north facing windows she had to navigate, so if the Duke were already in the room, it would prove a challenge to enter. Not undoable by any means, it was just always easier for a spy to make their entrance when no one was around, and as Vaelyn approached the windows, she was certain to turn on her magics, muffling her movements as she made her way carefully towards the stone sill . It was a precarious situation to travel by rooftop, and the keep's tall rooves adding an equally harder level to the task than she'd have liked, but she had the litheness and even despite her small frame, the strength to carry herself up onto the window with ease.
She had timed the climb so she'd peek into the window as soon as the clouds rolling in cast out the sun, and one her world dimmed, she slowly poked her head up and peered into the window, allowing her eyes to adjust. But when they did, a breath caught in her throat at rhe sight- for the Duke in question was already inside.
She held her breath, despite her powers to quell sound, but was soon cursing as rhe clouds rolled away, exposing her to shadow casting as she crouched down and hoped the man hasn't noticed. From what he gathered he had been reading a book, but where he was stationed was within the full light of the windows.
Damn. He just had to be there. This just made her job exponentially more difficult.