Title: Halcyon Days
Fandom: Assassin's Creed
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 130
Summary: There are only two constants. (Three, if you count Zeus). One is death.


“Is that a - ?”

“Shark? That it is. One of the big ones, too.” Kassandra pulls the oar for another sweep, sending them rocking forward through the smooth waters of Kephallonia's sheltered bay. The fisher who had bought her service as a messenger had not much to pay with, but a meal at his fire and the use of his boat while he journeyed over to Kranioi to break bread with his wife's family was good enough for her.

“And – they won’t ...?”

“See the shape of the fin? They eat only small fish, not people. Well," Kassandra makes a show of measuring her passenger's size, "not the big ones. Anyone smaller than an amphora ..."

"Kassandra!" Phoibe yells, and nearly overturns them both with her lunging and splashing.