The World Walkers: Unknown World: Guinevere: Walking Into A Trap

Silently Guinevere stepped into the pitch black room. Her target was meant to be asleep in the bed, so she waited until she heard the even breathing that told her the information she’d been given was correct. She set her light charm working with a whisper as she closed the door carefully behind her with one hand and used the other to take a sleep charm out of her bag. Even though it was the most expensive charm she had in her bag, and was a single use charm too, she used one for every job to make sure that she was in the right place. A couple of times she’d found herself in the wrong room and checking before she’d done anything meant she always got the person she’d been hired to rid the Web of.

The plush carpet swallowed the sound of Guinevere crossing the room. Thankfully there was no one else in the room. Her job was always made more difficult when her target had a partner, but this one seemed like it was going to be easy. At least that was what she thought until she went to place the sleep charm on the forehead of the man lying in the bed and realised that he looked nothing like the picture she’d been shown. His eyes opened as she stepped backwards.

“I’m glad you could make it, Guinevere,” he said, as he slid out of the bed fully dressed.

One of the emergency charms Guinevere kept in her bag, and never wanted to use, was one that created a temporary door. She didn’t know where it would lead, so she wasn’t sure she wanted to use it if there was another way out of the trap she’d got herself into. Normally the first thing she did, after making sure whoever was in the building was asleep, was look for escape routes, but she hadn’t had a chance. Jumping out of the window wasn’t a good idea, because she couldn’t do magic and safe landing charms were even more expensive than sleep charms. As one of the best assassins in the Web she earned good money, but there were days when it wasn’t enough.

“Who are you?” she asked, in an attempt to stall him.

Smiling, he raised an eyebrow. “That’s a question we both know I’m not going to answer. All you need to know is that I was hired by someone who isn’t very happy with you.”

Guinevere looked at him, knowing who the most likely candidate was for someone who wasn’t very happy with her, but it wasn’t just one person. Being born a demon meant that she was always going to be hunted by the World Walkers’ Council because she could travel the Web without needing any tattoos and that made her dangerous. Choosing to make the most of the magic she’d been given made her even more dangerous, which explained the trap. He watched Guinevere and she knew that getting away from him wasn’t going to be easy, but she wasn’t going to let the Council take away her power.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.