Assassin. That's what they called her as she slipped through the shadows on the orders of her Emperor. She was young, lithe, and deadly. She was the best of her

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The so-called ' Assassins' are one of the most spectacular legends of medieval history. In the popular imagination they are drug-crazed fanatics who launched mu

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