Up the roof

The easiest approach would be to use the roof to get to the tower windows. If it weren't for Orestes' damn guards, you would have made this climb two years ago. Now that his men are no longer there it is the logical place to start. With the guards in place there was no need to trap this area with broken shards of glass or breakaway tiles, so now that the guards were gone this should be pretty easy. Also, you have an easy escape route, even wounded, sliding down the tiles and dropping onto the street would get you away from any sudden attacks. Who knows what kind of traps those sewer passageways were guarded by and if you were discovered clinging to the tower wall twenty-five paces above the goose pen there weren't a lot of good options for getting away.

Moving around the open square you keep an eye out for Alrechi's henchmen. One job at a time is best, and for now that job is Orestes. As you get closer you feel your heartbeat increase its tempo under your full breasts, you were finally going to strike back at that serpent. What would be better you wonder, to have abandoned the estate so you can trash it thoroughly or do you hope to find him hiding in his pathetic tower so you can cut him apart piece by painful piece. 'Let the gods decide those things which you cannot.' Your mother told you that over ten years ago when you were not yet a woman. That and 'Never trust a man, they are all scum' were her two favorite bits of truth and actually, between the two statements formed a good part of your own philosophy.

The climb up the corner of the estate was not easy, but you've made much harder climbs regularly. The tricky bit was flipping your legs up onto the roof as you hung from the rafters. Your arms had much more strength in them than most people would guess due to a daily exercise routine that includes fifty pull-ups as well as twenty hanging crunches where you lift your knees to your chin while hanging from a iron bar. Compared to that flipping onto the roof is a piece of cake. Your short skirt flips completely away from your toned ass and a flash of light skin would certainly have alerted any guard on the tower roof. For some jobs you wear black hose that help disguise you, but tonight you didn’t bother to bring them, you hope that won’t be a mistake.

Once on the rooftop, you move silently up the gentle slope of the roof. The thin leather soles of your shoes move silently over the smooth red tiles as you approach the base of the tower. The windows at the tower are big enough to slip through if you can get them open. It would be easy enough to break a glass pane and then open the window, but if anyone is in the room below, there is no way they can miss the noise of breaking glass.

You could try to jimmy the locking mechanism, but you don't know how long that might take you and you are feeling exposed on the roof. Your dark clothes contrast sharply with the white stone of the tower and anyone walking on the empty streets would certainly spot you if they looked up for any reason.

The other option is to climb the last 30 feet to the top of the tower and look for a way in through the guard's catwalk.