>Have we ever been pickpocketed? And if so, how badly did we shank the fool who did it?
>A small part of your Seeker training involved defense against pickpocketing and one of the senior Seekers in particular was fond of delivering surreptitious 'alertness exams'. Finding your keys inexplicably absent was practically a rite of passage and even you were not exempt from this. You did, however, only fail a single time - an extremely good showing compared to most of your peers.
>Outside of this, you've had more than one fairy try to brazenly rummage through your possessions - who hasn't? - though none of them ever got very far. Well, unless you count the little munchkin who ran off with your birthday cheese wheel a few years back, though it wasn't exactly in your pocket at the time. Even now, you can still feel the hint of a scowl cross your face as you recall the cold fury with which you pried its remains from her traumatized form. It was Spiced Havalan. Spiced Havalan! And it was
delicious. Anyway....
>The only case of
real pickpocketing that you were ever victim to happened while on a brief job off-island, during your apprenticeship. Even this did not occur without you noticing, but the thief had chosen her time well - in the middle of a minor riot - and your attempt to give chase was interrupted by the sudden need to evade an inexplicably airborne wheelbarrow. The thief slipped away during the ensuing dogpile and by the time you had extricated yourself from it, was long gone. You did spend some time searching for her afterward, of course, more on principal than for need of the 14 guilders she pilfered, but the logistics of ferry and exam schedules forced you back to Braston unsatisfied.
