A couple of weeks passed as Evelyn and her companions continued their stay in the Miris Sect.
Outwardly, the five of them were counting to escort Maeve while she got adjusted to her new life in the Miris Sect. Yet, this was only to keep their cover. Whenever they had free time, their party worked to further their own goals.
Slowly but surely, Lucia fed information about the imprisoned owls to Osvaldo and Uriah without either of the two ever realizing who she was.
The two Deamhain Sect members surely believed that their own authority and investigative skills were bringing them this intel, but everything was going according to Lucia's designs.
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"It seems that've just about gathered all of them. It's time for us to put the last phase of our plan in motion." Evelyn said, a malicious grin on her face.
Now that Osvaldo and Uriah had essentially bullied the members of the Miris Sect into selling the owls that were being held captive, they had played their role, and it was time for them to disappear.
"Evelyn, you will be going to this location tomorrow, while Aralee and Bylur will be going here." Lucia said, handing maps to the three of them.
On each map warehouses were marked in out of the way locations within the second walled layer of the Miris Sect's capital.
These two locations were where Evelyn would ambush Uriah, and Aralee and Bylur would ambush Osvaldo respectively.
"And what will you two be doing?" Bylur asked.
"As we discussed originally, we will make sure that our group appears in public to avoid any suspicion." Rehni responded.
"No, but it is likely. I made sure to stress that security around where Bylur and Aralee will be is tighter. Plus, I believe that Osvaldo will want to go to the location with two owls in it. Being the superior of the two, he will want to gain the most prestige by personally collecting the greatest number of owls."
Lucia's explanation helped to calm Evelyn down.
While she was not afraid of dealing with Osvaldo, a battle between them was likely to be messy. Plus, she wanted to personally kill the man she held responsible for the death of her parents in this world.
With their discussion coming to an end, the five members of Evelyn's party headed off to their own room to get some rest.
They had done everything that they could to prepare for their upcoming operation, but there were still an untold number of risks involved. One slipup could have the entire Miris Sect, or perhaps even the Tyrannis union as a whole, come crashing down on top of them.
Still, the rewards for their efforts would be immense. Not only would they eliminate two operatives from the Deamhain Sect and save several captured owls, but also cause untold friction within the Union. In the best-case scenario, a massive civil war could even break out.
"Though I don't think that will really happen. Most likely the Miris Sect will end up slowly destroyed." Evelyn muttered to herself, imagining all of the possibilities that come from killing Osvaldo and Uriah.
Tomorrow she would finally strike the first blow against the nation that was the root cause for nearly all of her misery during her second life.
They had killed her parents, subjected her to unimaginable tortures in the name of experimentation, killed one of her closest friends, and nearly annihilated the place she had come to call home.
Perhaps she should have abandoned revenge and sought to keep her distance to protect herself and those close to her. Yet Evelyn could not.
She believed that so long as she let people keep taking from her without recourse, that they would continue to do so until she had nothing left.
Also, as immoral as it might have been, she wanted those that had caused her so much pain, to suffer as well. To know even a fraction of the agony she had experienced before meeting their ends.