Spy At Work - Elriel Month Day 3
I wrote this running just to participate on that third day, I hope you like it. @elrielmonth
Elain adjusted her dress and tried to calm her breathing, Az watched her from across the room and they exchanged a subtle look before she walked over to Beron, it was time to put the plans into practice.
Putting it into practice
Elain adjusted her dress and tried to calm her breathing, Az watched her from across the room and they exchanged a subtle look before she walked over to Beron, it was time to put the plans into practice.
Hours before
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Azriel asked entering the room and leaning against the door. His shadows of it swirled around him, making his concern clear.
"Don't you trust your good performance as a teacher?" Elain smiled at him in the dressing table mirror as she put on the earrings and he seemed to relax a little, rolling his shoulders and walking around the room.
Elain knew that conversation would happen at some point, Az had been training her as a spy for months and sooner or later she would have to go on her first mission, and fate seemed to have decided that the perfect opportunity for that would be that night, at the annual ball of the autumnal court.
"I know you're ready" He ran a hand through his hair and then sighed. "But it would be easier if you took this with you."
Elain turned in his chair to look at him and he pulled out the truth-teller, holding it out to her.
"Az ... I don't think it's necessary" Elain stood up and walked over to him, holding his hand around the handle of the legendary dagger and holding his gaze. When Az just continued to look at her, she rolled her eyes but ended up smiling. "If you insist...I bet I won't need to use it"
Taking the dagger from his hand, Elain rests a foot on the chair where she was sitting before and pulled the skirt of her dress up to her thigh, revealing the holster where another dagger was already positioned. Az just smiled seeing that she was ready, and bit his lip while she made the switch. “I don't want to bet on your safety, but if you insist”
"Happy?" Elain adjusted the dress and put the other dagger in the drawer, turning back to him.
"Now I'm. And by the way, you look beautiful.” He pulled her gently into his arms and being careful not to smudge her makeup, kissed her on the lips very lightly.
Elain walked away, still with her eyes closed, and shook his hands. "Time to put into practice everything you taught me" her eyes met and he nodded, directing her to the door where they parted on the way to the hall.
Now
Azriel took a glass from the waiter who was passing by the hall and turned its contents at once.
"Hey hey hey, let's take it easy" Cassian patted his on the back, and he stared at his friend.
"I wanted to see if you would be calm if as Nesta over there" Az said crossing his arms and Cassian seemed to get tense.
"Fair" Both hid against the wall, watching people dance around the room as Elain talked to Beron and Eris.
Azriel was using all of his training and willpower to stay in place and prevent his shadows from consuming him. He was not used to it, he worked in the dark, hidden from everyone and when nobody was noticing, his tactic was to go unnoticed in his missions and thus be able to surprise his opponents and he had trained Elain like that, but that night she would put her own techniques in-game. While he armed himself with darkness and worked so as not to attract attention, Elain was great at making people bend their wills, with a few smiles and a few words she would put anyone on their knees and hopefully get the information they were on a search that night. He became even tenser when he saw Baron offer his arm and lead her towards the hall. Az followed them with his eyes until they were out of sight.
Almost half an hour had passed when a glimpse of the red dress caught his eye and there she was, smiling as if hadn't passed the last thirty minutes making him almost lose his head in concern. When their eyes met, she just winked and went back to talking to a girl who was next to her. Now they just had to wait for the ball to end or as they had planned: be interrupted.
Azriel counted to 10 as he walked away to the nearest window and then chaos was installed in a sweet and sickening explosion, with petals filling the entire room as they fell from the ceiling, just as Elain had said that the rain of flowers would do.
"In the second floor, thirteenth window" Elain appeared in front of him running soon as he crossed the garden with Cassian. She already had another outfit on and no heels and after a nod to Cassian, the general went to where he would be on the lookout and soon Azriel was flying towards the indicated window with Elain in his arms.
"Are you okay?" Az asked placing it on the floor as soon as they crossed the window and she smiled, swinging a necklace with a key in front of him "I'm great".
Smiling, they pushed a bookshelf to the side, and using the key that she managed to get from Beron, they opened a safe.
"How much time do we have?" Az had turned the papers over, calmly and accurately so as not to take anything away unnecessary of the place.
"Two minutes" She was nervous, looking all the time towards the door, but she cheered when Az found what she was looking for and tucked the paper in her suit.
"It seems that you passed the test." He smiled at her, pushing the bookcase back into place and they went to the window through which they had entered. “Just as you had seen in your vision”
“Exactly, and It looks like I won the bet” Elain smiled and he laughs, pulling her close.
“I'm looking forward to paying. Let's go home”
Minutes later they were already in the sky, with Cassian and heading for the Velaris.