Road Brothers: Tales from the Broken Empire

Lies are soft and accomodating. Truth is hard, full of uncomfortable angles. It rarely helps anyone.

"And what do you think will happen if you succeed? You`ll be a murderer! Do you know what they do to murderers? Do you know what happens to them in hell?"
"I`ll be king," Jorg replied, still calm, focused on the distant windows above the stable stalls. "I will pardon myself."
"God won`t pardon you, Jorg!"
"Kings rule by divine right. I read that. If it is my right to sit on the throne then God has to approve how I got there."

The perfect assassin, the one who can reach anyone, anywhere, needs to know his target intimately, and such knowledge breeds love. So there lies a dilemma. The perfect assassin needs to be able to kill the things he loves -- or rather to understand the emotion but not let it stay his hand.