Day Two

[Victor Wolfe]

Victor winced as he looked at the wounds the weapon had inflicted, the woman had gotten him good, it was all within acceptable parameters and thus he concluded that his mission was a success.He had been told to infiltrate, kill and try not to get killed in the preceding skirmish. Overall a good days work for the young assassin.

Victor was shocked at first hearing that he had not only killed the poor woman he was targeting, but condemned her to a dimension of torment. "Perhaps that was a tad harsh of me, maybe I should have found out what the magic poison really did before I used it on that girl." Victor thought to himself. " I mean, what if she had family, friends, or a lover." She certainly was pretty enough for one before she turned to dust. And thanks to the revelation about what the serum did, one of his traveling companions had almost snapped at him.

Luckily for Victor his inner voice was there to reassure him, it spoke into his head, light and gentle, yet strong and comforting at the same time, " Do not worry about it, after all didn't the empire teach you that all the people you were killing where evil and thus going to the underworld?", this rang true. The empire he was a trained by loved their theology lessons teaching him and the other recruits that all enemies of the empire would suffer for eternity in the underworld. " You see? throughout your whole career as an assassin on some level you believed that everyone you killed was going to be tormented for eternity ." Victor thought over this idea and agreed that some part of him probably believed the idea that everything he was doing was for the greater good but for the first time in his life he was not so sure.

Sure it had put him in a good position but the look of horror in their eyes as he stabbed the syringe deep into Violet sent a uncomfortable shiver down his spine. "Maybe these girls did not deserve that, maybe we went to far this time?" Victor started to doubt himself and the life he was leading, every kill, theft and betrayal he had ever performed started to come back with him causing him to keel over onto one knee, his breathing getting heavier as he struggled to take in air.

Until it hit him, with the force of a punch to the face the voice in his mind screamed at him. " Shut up and listen to me you intolerable, self doubting fool! You are an assassin, its not your job to think about the questions of morality or true justice, it's your job to kill when your lord tells you to kill, and you were given an order to kill that girl using the needle, so what did you do?" The voice shouted with all the force of a concussion " I killed her, using the needle." Victor answered back his voice whimpering from the pain. " Damn right you did , you did your job to the letter and helped out your group, as an assassin you have done well , and being an assassin has gotten you this far, so just keep up what you have been doing so far and when this is all done we can discuss our life choices."

The pain subsided and Wolfe recovered from the panic attack standing up straight he took a few deep slow breaths to calm himself. " Good, if it's any consolation the fact that they were on this island means that those two would have probably killed you had it come down to just you three, Don't forget this is a survival game. Besides I am sure this sort of thing happens all the time, with the amount of people killing each other on this island alone there are sure to be cases where it all went to far and lead to banishment."

Victor decided that he had done nothing overly wrong and with this new found self acceptance cracked a smile " well that all turned out great, shame one of them got away but that arrow should give her something to think about at least. still she gave pretty good too, thats a great weapon for you to have your majesty, if what it did to me was any indication it packs a real punch. " Victor said out loud, the king however seemed to be deep in thought.

Victor looked at the other possible people that he could have a conversation with, after all the only company he had had recently was a dead old guy, a voice in his head and two people he was going to betray. He would not let the opportunity for real human interaction, He looked at the large hulking figure of the marine, he did not look like the one known as Okor but still he seemed like the quiet type, And the last thing Victor needed was to get on his bad side.

That left Jon Snow , the man who he had previously saved from certain death, he did not know the exact details of his injury but it was grim, much worse than the damage that the other members of the group had suffered. Lucky for them Wolfe had obtained the stem packs from Seraph and the instructions with them where pretty simple to follow. It was a close call though.

Before Victor decided to follow Jon he thought about what he could do to try and stop some of the bleeding from the holes he was riddled with, an idea came to him. He removed the cloak that he had been wearing and ripped it into long strips, once he was satisfied he wrapped the began to use the fabric to wrap up the injured areas, there was just enough material to prevent him from leaking blood every time he took a step, happy with his makeshift first aid he headed after Jon.

Jon was brooding on his own clearly suffering from a similar conflict to the one Wolfe had suffered, and was clearly taking it harder than he had. Wolfe decide to try and give him some advice to help him through it.

" Listen sir.Snow I had no idea about the effect of the serum and what was going to happen, I am a new resident to this world and ended up in this tournament by chance, but I ask myself now , if I had known before hand what was going to happen would I have done it? I say yes, you see when you were but a whisper away from death I arrived, I healed your wounds to the best of my ability and your king intrusted me with that serum and gave me that mission. Now he could have easily used the serum on me and got the medication and my weapon, then he could healed you and I would be in the underworld right now, He could have also decided to take the stem packs for himself and leave you to die after taking that bow, I think at full strength he would be just as powerful as you were after i healed you, So Jon Snow what I am trying to say is , you need to drop the morality act for a while and put your trust in this group, without trust you would be dead, I would be allyless and our King would be in a bad position, we need to do whatever it takes to get through this, after all this is the abyss and the rules are different here." Victor poured his conviction into every word, he would try and be the one to try and bring Jon back to sense," Just remember sir Snow , I was the one who had to plunge that needle into someone who for all I know could have become a good friend if we had met under different circumstances" Victor decided to leave Jon with these words of advice heading back to the main area.