Secrets
Shadow is scheduled to be at the musty room at nightfall, so we head home to hand over the loot. We meet Tom and Nik on the way over. Nik was the other thug taking me to Shadow’s place on my first day. He’s a huge, muscle-bound guy in his late twenties, with straight blond hair and piercing blue eyes. As opposed to Joel, who started out as a thief, the other two have always been swordsmen. As it turns out, most of the henchmen begun as mercenaries, who then learned to move around silently and unnoticed.
Tom and Nik make a good team although they couldn’t be more different. As soon as Tom sees me he starts to flirt. He bows, doffing his imaginary hat with a complicated motion and compares my smile to the blaze of the setting sun. Nik, on the other hand, nods briefly and silently w
