Prompt: The List | Word count: 1032 | Genre: Fantasy | Mild Violence and Profanity
“Live by the list; die by the list!” Eve dutifully repeated the words as she entered the Assassin’s Hall. I never wanted to be an assassin, Eve cringed at the young initiate’s words but she continued towards her place at the front. There was little she could do to comfort the unblooded woman.
Her decade of service granted her one of the highest ranking positions in the Corp. Perhaps with time the young one might learn to accept her fate but the odds were never in their favor. More than half the new initiates would be buried before the end of the year, dead by one of the factions’ hands during a botched assassination or by their own guilt.