#[ the first talon hiring the black shadow to break out his cousin is chef kiss ]

[spitedriven]

a fic idea i have that i might write sometime is lucanis knowing there's no way he can ever let illario have any rank of meaning within the crows, which he knows is eating at his cousin. there's no way he can just invite him back either, there's too much bad blood between him and many of the other families. house dellamorte isn't strong enough to fight back yet, but the idea of his cousin rotting away--whether in prison or on the estate, it doesn't matter--eats at lucanis himself.

so he hires someone to break in and essentially steal illario away and fake his death, so he might have the chance at living a life free of the crows and getting to have the freedom he thinks illario craves.

but who would be brave enough to break into a crow stronghold, get illario out alive while also making it seem like he's dead, and then be able to set him up in a new city?

zevran arainai, that's who.