Vatak

"I don't know who I'm working for, exactly," The bird alien said.

I'd had enough of their beating around the bush. I summoned the beginnings of an energy beam into the palm of my hand and allowed it to sizzle and crackle against my own skin.

"I'm running out of patience here, buddy," I said. "What do you mean you don't know who you're working for?"

"They went through an intermediary, someone from Clan Pren, but the one who hired me wasn't from Clan Pren themselves," The alien explained.

"You want me to believe that the people who ordered you to kill her," I said and pointed straight at Rin, "Wasn't, in fact, the gang that she ran away from when she was a kid, but some random that was using them as an intermediary? That doesn't sound likely."

The would-be assassin glanced over at Rin.

"I didn't know anything about her past, man. I was told to kill whoever came to meet you. You were the target, not her! You gotta believe me!"