The Buccaneers of Shadaki

Joe Dever and Brian Williams

136

Fearing that Hiojin will carry out his threat, in desperation you make one last attempt to reason with the man.

‘If I were an assassin, do you really think that I would ask the City Guard for directions to my victim’s house?’

Hiojin frowns. He is beginning to have doubts about his assumption that you are a hired killer. Rather than admit that he could be wrong he begins to bluster:

‘Er, I’ll have to look into this further. In the meantime you will be held here pending … er, further investigations.’

Hiojin quickly summons his men and has you taken away and placed in a solitary cell.

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