Dakarai glared at the new Apprentices and reluctantly came forward when the Mentor called for him. "This," the Mentor said and motioned at Dakarai, "Is Dakarai, he will be the Master that oversees your training from this point on." Dakarai said nothing, he simply stared at the group angrily, not daring to voice his protests in the Mentor's presence. "Don't worry about his attitude," the Mentor continued after a moment, glaring at Dakarai momentarily, "It will change soon enough."

Abasi watched as the Mentor introduced Dakarai and couldn't help but smile at the fact Dakarai's position was clearly meant to humiliate him.

The Mentor stood and said "Dakarai, I leave the rest to you." and was accompanied by all the Masters except Dakarai out of the meeting room. Before any of the Apprentices could speak or comment Dakarai turned on them abruptly.

"I will be your master from this point on, you will listen when I speak and though I don't have the power to remove you from the Order I will not go easy on you," He paced he room and glared at them all in turn before speaking again. "Tonight I have been told," Dakarai spat the word, "that I am to accompany you on your first mission. There is a man in the bazaar who has been selling information about us to the Pharaoh's men. We don't know who is giving this information to him but they are meeting tonight and we will kill them both. Come." As soon as Dakarai finished speaking he turned and left the room without giving the Apprentices a chance to ask any questions or collect anything except the equipment they had been given.

Abasi jogged to catch up to Dakarai as he led the small group out of the Order's hideout and through the streets of Cairo at a quick pace, almost as if he were trying to lose them. Abasi struggled to keep pace with the man and asked him several times to slow down but he wouldn't respond. He eventually stopped trying to get Dakarai to speak with him and slowed down and backed off from Dakarai, joining the rest of the group as they kept pace.

A short time later they arrived at the bazaar and Dakarai simply said "He is my height, black hair and green eyes. He will be wearing a brown cloak and will be in a back alley. Go, find and kill him." Once he was done speaking Dakarai turned and vanished into a crowd, probably to observe them from a distance. He gave them so little information that their task seemed impossible but Abasi knew that as unfair as he would be Dakarai would not see the mission fail simply to spite the Apprentices. Would he?

"Where do we start? Just search through back alleys and hope we stumble upon a couple of men talking in secret" Abasi said as he looked at his fellow Apprentices, dumbfounded by what they had been thrust into with so little useful information. "Any ideas?" he asked to nobody in particular.