1.10.
Irina loosens
the regulator nozzle on the tub while directing the flames erupting from the
multi tube to create a fireball. The fireball would propel by the air pressure
towards the target she had set at a hundred feet. On impact the fireball would
cover the five feet diameter in seconds. Her design was only to shoot the
flame, but the treated fuel with chemical added would burn at a higher heat and
caused a more intense fire. She smiled at her own contraption which could be
mounted onto her back to be used as a personal weapon, or it could be mounted
onto a wheeled contraption creating dual cannon of flames.
It was then her
frustrations stepped in when the flame fizzled out.
“Damn!” Irina
cursed out before she lowered the spluttering cannon of fire from the lack of
pressure to propel it. She had been trying to control the release of the compressed
air to extend the distance of the flame. She reached for the belt to unslung
the triple canister on her back when she felt the hands helping her. She was
overjoyed and turned around.
“Father!” Irina
took a step back.
“I am sorry. Did
you expect to see him?” Master Galeb asked his daughter.
“No, I was not.
I was …” Irina tried to explain but inside her she was upset. She had known her
lover had taken another task after having barely survived the last one. The
assassin could refuse at that seniority but Kassius had just nodded. Irina had
buried her sadness in her inventions, hoping that one of them, or all of them
would help the assassins in the task. She broke out in tears and ran to her
father’ arms. The older man soothe down his daughter’ cries. He had been with
her when Kassius did not report in. The Guild does not encourage any others to
find him, but Master Galeb had sent someone there. It was a young apprentice,
Lucas. He came back with the information that the assassin was captured and
held imprisonment.
In the next two
weeks, Irina had tried every means on how to save her lover. She finally found
the means to keep him nourished. She had designed a mechanism which allowed her
to interact with the flying creatures. Her most advanced one was an owl she had
befriended. She had constructed the metal cap that would allow her to tap into
the owl’ brain by activating the synapse signals in it. The bird could respond
to the basic commands. The bird helped her fed the prisoner with the serpents.
But who would feed
them when the Devil’s Own was under siege.
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