Myrra watched yet again as another head was separated from a body. This time, though, it was that of her father's.
However. Instead of the pain of loss one would feel at losing a loved one, all she felt was extreme fear at the possibility that she would be next.
Tavian had adopted her in the course of one of his earlier assassination missions. Her actual father was the target of this mission, and he had killed him in front of her.
She would have been killed as well by Tavion, but she managed to convince him of the benefits of keeping her alive and taking her under him.
Her special skill was the final convincing factor that saved her that day, and helped most in convincing Tavian that she would be most helpful to him alive.
That was how the father-daughter small family of assassins came to be.
However, Myrra had been plotting a way to get her revenge on Tavian for killing her father.
