Chapter 48: Troubling Aria

Two shadowed figure slip silently through the cool night. They ran down to the docks and stared out to the sea. Both of them stopped to look out to sea, gazing at the stars. One oh them gazed straight to the sky and said. "My darling, I can hear your song. We shall be reunited soon."

The figure reached their hand to the sky. The figure then put their hand down and turned to the other.

"You know what to do, right? You already failed before, and now we have a lead. Screw this up and I will have your head," the figure said.

"I know...the kid is what we are after...," the other one said.

The figures were wearing hoods with white masks. One of them looked like their mask had two long fangs. The other one just had on a plain white mask.

The one with fangs spoke, " remember, he needs to be alive for it to work. I will help you with whatever you need, but I can only do so much. This is not my fight, it is yours."

The man in the plain white mask just sighed and looked off to the side.

"Are you even sure that you can hear her song? There is only one person who gazed upon her face," the man in the plain mask said.

The other man gave him a look of rage and turned back to the water.

"Of course, I can hear her every night when I go to sleep. Her song, like an aria to the heavens. Calling me to set her free from her prison. None other than the beast herself," the one with fangs said.

"Are you even sure such a beast exists, and, if so, what gives you the idea that she is trapped?," the man in the plain mask said.

"The beast of the void is more than any beast. She was put by Volit the spirit creator himself," the fanged masked man said.

"I have heard all of the tales, but they are just bedtime stories...," the man in the plain mask said.

"They are religion."

"How do you figure?"

The fang masked man gazed at the other in disgust.

"Just do what I tell you and you will be rewarded, Loki," the fang-masked man said.

Loki then took off his plain white mask revealing his face. He took off his hood, showing his long, brown hair.

"So it's either reward, or death, isnt it?,"Loki said.