Sabre paused to peer into the dregs of her empty glass which I took as an indication that she was desirous
of a refill
and so I silently poured her a second bottle to which she smiled her thanks as she continued.
"Now that the rather obvious matter of Stealth has been dealt with,
I often find that it is best to offer a word or two concerning the proper technique to employ in taking down your unwary prey."
"For you see, regardless of how successful the would-be assassin may be in making her initial approach to the subject ..."
"Her efforts along these lines may well have been made in vain ..."
"And all may be lost ..."
"If - indeed - the assassin makes a poor choice in the location of the thrust of her knife ..."
"For while I will count myself as being among the ranks of those
who find the navel of another woman a most desirable place to insert my blade ..."
"It becomes imperative to remember that in taking down a Sentry of an opposing clan ..."
"That we are not here to take pleasure in dispatching the woman ..."
"No! That is hardly the case at all!"
"Rather - the assassin is - or a least should be here to dispatch her victim as quickly and as efficiently as is possible
under what perhaps may be or is quite likely to become adverse and dangerous circumstances!"
"And, I may also add, thrusting the blade of a knife or that of any other weapon into the belly of the Sentry ..."
"Or into the gut of any other Warrior for that matter ...
Is most definitely NOT the most efficient technique to use
quite regardless of however enjoyable the exercise may be!"
"And however musical her grunts and cries of anguish may be to your ears ..."
"Remember if you will that her various colorful vocalizations ..."
"Are quite likely to reach the ear of others of her Clan ..."
"Which means quite simply ..."
"That every extra moment that the assassin spends ..."
"As her kinfe plumbs the depths of her opponent's gut ..."
"In point of fact serves no real purpose ..."
"Other than to expose the assassin herself to very real peril!"
"For even though the Sentry will surely ultimately succumb to the attentions given her ..."
"The assassin should above all remember that in chosing her killing technique ..."
"That her knife has not been plunged into the belly of some hapless prisoner
held in the relative safety of the confines of the assassin's own domain ..."
"But rather that it is the assassin herself who is alone in Enemy Territory ..."
"And so even though she has successfully dispatched the Sentry as she intended ..."
"That not only has she risked discovery by stabbing her victim in the belly ..."
"But that the assassin is even now exposing herself to further jeopardy
by pausing to gloat or preen over the body of her kill!"
"After all the time that has elasped since her knife was first poised at the navel of the Sentry ..."
"There remains little doubt in my mind that the camp is now aware that something is amiss!"
"And even now some member of the opposition approaches if only to see what the Sentry is about!
And in seeing the assassin standing there over the body of her fallen confederate ..."
"She will waste little time in launching a shaft into the chest of the Interloper!"pictures/sents30.jpg>
"Too late the assassin will realize the error in her ways!""
"As now she herself stands only moments away from the Death that awaits her!"
"And as she topples and falls to her knees somewhere about the body of her victim ..."
"It is now too late by far for her to recall ..."
"That this ... Her own death ..."
"Could as easily have been avoided ..."
"Had the assassin have but borne in mind ..."
"That she been taught the proper technique ..."
"To employ when approaching ... "
"And then properly dispatching a Sentry ..."
"So now her own death accounts for little ..."
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"Perhaps even for nothing ..."
"For as often as not it is only those who are considered as Expendable ..."
"Who are sent upon missions such as these in the first place!"
"Be that as it may ...
This mission can only be considered as a Failure because although the assassin has in fact neutralized the Sentry ...
Her own death means that she cannot convey that bit of information to others of her party
and so the deaths of both were essentially of little or no use to anyone ..."
