Chapter 10

In a wide room, more than two times the size of Senro's bedroom, which housed plain comfy sofas, wooden tables with flower vases, books arranged proportionally and scrolls on top of it and a fire place, with flames still flickering in it, a huge, bulky, ebony woman, about six foot four in height, was slowly pacing up and down the room, deeply engrossed in her thoughts. She looked to be in her late thirties and she had a really striking resemblance to Sasha, the only difference been that, Sasha had the average height and size of a regular girl and the woman looked older. Though, another noticeable difference, if one would call it that, would be that the woman had a ghastly long scar which ran like a ravine from the left side of her forehead, down to her left cheek and stopped right in the middle of the left side of her neck, which gave her a scary look. Her thick, black long hair was tied up in a bun, presenting her with the look of a regular, hardworking, stay-at-home mom, but from her distinguishing features, one would definitely conclude that she wasn't that all.

The woman was still slowly pacing about when another ebony woman quietly passed through one of the four doors leading to the room, which was situated at the right side of the room and was left ajar. This woman, who looked to be in her early thirties, had an attractive chocolaty skin and a very beautiful facial feature. Unlike the other ebony woman, she was of average height and had very slim, dainty and curvy bodily features. Her features were so dainty to the extent that it should be seen as a sin, if one dared to mishandle her and such an offender should receive the divine punishment of the heavens. Her tight, silvery gown, all the more accuented her curves and bestowed on her with the exact depiction of a figure 8. When she gracefully walked, her curvy, dainty body unintentionally swayed seductively from side to side and this projected the exact scenario of a fairy, coming out directly from an exquisite painting and showcasing her glamour to the whole wide world, for all to see. With such a very beautiful face and such exquisite curves, any man born of a woman, would die to greedily have her all to himself, at any cost.

Immediately, this slim woman entered the room and set her lovely eyes on the huge woman, who seemed not have noticed that someone else was in the room with her, as she was still slowly pacing about the room in deep thoughts, the slim woman's plain facial expression changed into one of deep reverence, as she called out to the huge woman in a soft and gentle voice.

"Big sister, you called for me?"

It was only after the soft, high pitched voice of the slim woman echoed through the room, did the huge woman abruptly stop her pacing and turned around to face the owner of the voice.

"Zedd, the mission that has been handed to me from the capital is a very dangerous one. I am having cold feet about accepting it." The huge woman said with a deep frown on her face.

"But big sister, you've never turned down a mission before, regardless of how messy such mission would be. What makes this one so dangerous?" The slim woman named Zedd asked with caution.

"Three reasons." The huge woman paused for a bit, before she continued." One, the target is a former vice commander of the army. Two, from what I have gathered, he has approximately close to two hundred and fifty men at his beck and call and three, his hideout is deep within the Boravine jungle in Fleming town and I can't send anyone in to spy and gather information, without such person getting caught. If I accept this mission, you guys would be going blind into enemy territory, without any recon whatsoever about the hideout." The huge woman, then deeply sighed and said "I can't just risk this."

Zedd had a serious expression on her face, as she digested information dished out to her by the huge woman. After a moment of silence, she asked "How much is the bounty placed on the target's head?"

The huge woman was silent for a few seconds, before she again sighed deeply and replied

"Five million gold coins."

Slight shock appeared on Zedd's face, before she snorted and said "As expected of a mission from the capital. High risk, high reward."

"Yeah." The huge woman agreed. "Those fat fucks sure know how to work someone to the death, but at least they pay well."

"But big sister, since the target this time around is a former vice commander, shouldn't the capital take care of this by themselves? I mean, they could just send a portion of their army to deal with this, instead of leaving it to us, right?" Zedd asked with doubt slowly emerging on her face.

"Hmmph!" The huge woman snorted in disgust. "Those chickens are still scared of the threat posed by the Flowing Ice Tribe. They have sent half the army to patrol the borders of the empire, while the remaining half ensure peace and stability in the capital and protect the royal family. They would rather throw gold coins about, than to spare a single soul from the army, to come to the aid of this town. Besides, they don't give two fucks about any of the other towns. As long as the capital is safe, then to them, all is well. If not that the target is a former vice commander and he keeps amassing more men and power, due to his reputation, the capital wouldn't have even cared about this. They just care about saving face."

A short moment of silence ensued between both of them, before Zedd interrupted it by asking "So, the target this time around would definitely be a fire essence wielder, right?"

"Since the target is a former vice commander, then yes, he would definitely be a fire essence wielder." The huge woman replied.

There was another moment of silence between them, this one though, ensuing longer than the previous moments. Both women had serious expressions deeply etched on their faces, as they got engrossed in their thoughts about what their next course of action would be, while standing rooted to the spot they were in. After more than three minutes of silence, Zedd sighed and stared at the huge woman before her, before asking in a very low voice, almost close to the sound of a mosquito buzzing near one's ear "Grace, should we accept this?"

Before the huge woman could reply to Zedd's question, the ivory, wooden door situated at the left side of the room noisily opened and Senro and Sasha sauntered in, causing the two ebony women to divert their attention towards them.

"Mom, Sasha informed me that we have a mission set for us. Is that true?" Senro asked immediately after entering the room. He still had the bag of ice held to his nose.