A tall man surrounded by about four women walked up behind Mattias.

‘Hmmm, who’s this guy?’ he began, looking at Mattias’s hand ‘A new assassin? Looks like I might have some competition’ Mattias turned to face him, he had a worried look on his face.

‘Ummm, who are you?’

‘You tell me your name and I’ll tell you mine’ Mattias looked away from him. He was silent, looking at the barkeep.

‘Are you OK?’ asked Katrine, looking at Mattias. He didn’t answer ‘I think it would be better if you leave my friend alone.

‘Oh, so he’s your “friend” now?’ Katrine then sighed.

‘I’m not in the mood, now please, leave him be’

‘Fine then’ he went over to the skeleton barkeep. ‘Gimme a gallon of beer, and few glassed to go with. One of the women went up to Mattias: she had very long almost black hair and was wearing a purple dress. She had a worried look her face. Mattias looked at her, smiling.

‘Umm, hello?’ she gasped, and said:

‘Greetings, ummmm…?’

‘Mattias’

‘Ah! Hello, lovely to meet you! My name is Katlamina!’

‘OK, nice to meet you. I’m… not going to remember your name’

‘You’re welcome to call me “Kat”!’

‘OK… Kat’ another one of the women went up to him. She was small and wore a black cape over a red leotard’

‘Hi there Mattias! I’m Vivi! I’m a succubus!’ she had quite a smile on her face.

‘Yeah, I can… tell’ Vivi burst out laughing.

‘Just like me, eh!’ said Viola.

‘That is not very appropriate, Mattias!’ scolded Katlamina

‘Oh, I’m sorry!’

‘Yeah, Mattias!’ said the tall man, who was now carrying a huge tankard of beer. Katlamina and Vivi were silent. The other two women went away. The tall man looked Mattias again, with a smile. ‘They call me Orhan The Great’ he paused, with a very proud looking smile ‘I am the underworld’s best assassin. One day, you might become just like me, on the top of the world, surrounded by beautiful women. I guess now it’s something you can only dream of’ he took a sip of his tankard. ‘See you around’ he started to walk away, but the he had noticed Katlamina and Vivi hadn’t come with him ‘Kat! Vivi! Come with me!’

‘Can we stay around this guy just a little longer?’ asked Vivi.

‘No. You’re coming with me, right now!’ Vivi groaned and said.

‘Fine, boss. Ugh!’ she then strutted back over to him. Katlamina had a sombre look on her face.

‘I’ll see you later, Mattias. It’s lovely to meet you’

‘Thanks’ Katlamina walked away Vivi ‘What an arsehole’ Mattias muttered to himself.

‘I heard that’ said Viola.

‘What, you actually like that guy?’ Viola didn’t anything ‘I mean, who the hell introduces himself by saying “I am… whoever the great”. What a way to polish his own knob’

‘“They call me Orhan The Great, that is”!’ said Katrine ‘I’m sure this tavern has got some extra oil for this guy’

‘Would you knock that off?’ groaned Viola, who then guzzled down her ber ‘I mean Mattias, think of things this way: he’s a great assassin and you can learn a lot from him. And like he said, you might get to be surrounded by whores, too’ Mattias started glaring at her, she glared at him back. ‘Oh, I can think about what you’re going to say: oh, but aren’t I a whore myself?’

‘Viola, what’s gotten into you?’ asked Katrine ‘You weren’t like this before Orhan and his girls came here’ Viola then groaned ‘Maybe you’ve had one too many drinks?’ Viola drunk more of her beer, her flask was now empty

‘Hey you! Gimme another beer!’ the skeleton gave her another flask, she started immediately started drinking from it.