[ IP ] Rainy Night

Ann looked out her rain soaked window, and followed the water beads down the glass with her finger as she thought about her day. The tiny sun room on the 5th floor was painted in every color imaginable from the reflections of the buzzing neon signs that lay just across Magnolia street. This refuge was half covered in large windows, surrounded by golden oak wood that covered every surface of the room. 
 
 Ann began to think about the troublesome assignment that she had been handed a month ago, and she began to hate herself again. `` I should n't have shot that little boy.'' She whispered to her reflection in the glass. 
 
 She began to meditate and attempt to find her Calming Center, just like the Guiding Sisters had taught her when she was just a little orphan girl. `` It needed to be done.'' Her shadow spoke to her. `` Boys grow to be men, and this man would have seized ultimate power if he so much as asked for it. The heir of Lucuz needed to disappear.'' 
 
 Ann lowered her head and saw the wicked truth in that, and yet it still did n't feel right. The years of killing had little effect on her after all this time, but somehow the boy's face would not leave Ann's mind. 
 
 `` I'm leaving the Guiding Sisters tonight.'' She whispered back to her shadow. You can not leave them, and you owe them the life you have now. Do you care nothing for the Path of Light?'' Her shadow looked back in disapproval. 
 
 `` I believe in the Path of Light. I believe that the Guiding Sisters were once working in the interest of finding that path, but I no longer believe that they work on the behalf of humanity.'' 
 
 For a moment there was nothing but the sound of summer rain, until the knock at the door came. The long calm of the night was shattered by panic. No one knew she was here. 
 
 Then the cold icy voice of sister Evelyn spoke through the door, `` No one leaves the sisterhood Ann. No one.''
