Disclaimer: Tamora Pierce owns George Cooper.
Unexpected Visitor
There was a new Rogue in the city. He wasn't like all of the other misers who didn't give back to the people of the Lower City. This new Rogue was called George, and everyone had already heard about him. To his friends he could be a very jocular man, but to his enemies, he was always daunted.
He was coming down from his quarters when a fracas erupted in the common sitting place. George easily broke up the two contentious young men, and corroborated the true story from one of his trustees to tell him what started this fight.
In his cursory way to break up the fight, he did not see the other young man with a silver glint of a knife hidden in his big hands. This new lad just arrived this morning to seek the position of King of Thieves. What he didn't know was how cunning George can be. So when the lad came up behind the Rogue, he didn't even register that George had swiftly knocked the blade out of his hands, and was now behind him with his own blade to the lad's neck.
