Cohost writing prompt: @spy-thief-assassin-who — Assassin who needs something big for this job
...Of course I am familiar with animal-persons, amna Bestoïdes. We have the cat-persons at home. The cat-persons make excellent assassins, they are naturally inclined to the ambush. They are good at lying still in wait, jumping suddenly. They carry their own sharpness. Vicious.
We do not have the rhinoceros-persons at home. We do not have the rhinoceros! What is this ridiculousness of an animal!
I poison the Ambassador, and it only gives her shits for a day. She is big, you say, use more; but how do I know how much will kill a rhinoceros? If it will kill a rhinoceros? Accursed bastard animal! Poison is expensive.
Look at her. Look at the magnificence of muscle. Look at my knives. Do these look like knives fit to kill a rhinoceros-person? What length of knife is needed? Where must it be placed? Ai!
Accordingly, Grandmaster, I am requesting funds for a wizardly scroll of handling the object of considerable bulk, and also a block of the stone, such as is employed by marvellously talented sculptors of this horrid land to produce their god-affronting blasphemous likenesses of diety in artistic form.
Crude, you say, to resort to falling rock?
Come finesse the rhinoceros yourself, then, say I.
Yrs,
THE SILKEN WHISPER