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Polgara smiled as she walked down the plank to the deck and stretched her will to the people around her. She was pleased to find a good deal of Chereks and Drasnians minds amongst the unfamiliar Nypharians. She was given time to observe this new race as Silk and the Captain argued on whether the crew should help in putting the fabrics in a warehouse or to just leave it on the dock for it to be Silk's problem. The old wolf left a while ago to find a suitable inn.
As she observe she noticed a young woman coming her way battling through the crowds. She had a blond obviously a wig on and wore poorly made rags. She carried a tray covered with fake gold and silver trinkets. The young woman gave her a nervous look and her hands shook as she held out the tray.
"Trinket for the beautiful lady? R-Real gold and silver…"
Silk appeared next to Polgara, his nose twitching as he picked up a ring, "Real gold and silver?" He repeated and smiled when he put back on the tray, "You're new at this, aren't you because even a little experience person would past this junk as real gold and silver?"
The girl looked startled, "New at this? Sir I-I don't know what you are talking about" the tray shook with nervousness as Silk gave her back the ring, "These are real sir."
Polgara watched the girl carefully. There was something not right about her. The girl's eyes didn't match her nervousness. They were cold and calculating showing intelligents. She was about to use her Will to look into the girl's mind when Polgara felt a very slight tug at her side where her pouch with her money was. Surprised she looked down to find a young Nypharian man hold her pouch, a small knife and a guilty expression on his face.
"Heh," The boy backed away, drawing Silk's attention away from the girl. When the he realized that Silk was looking at him to he nodded his head nervously. "Um, hello."
"Run you idiot."
Polgara spun around the girl threw the fake trinkets at Polgara and the tray at Silk's head, "I said run!" The girl ran forward and grabbed the young man's arm and forced him into action. They ran into the crowd towards town.
"That's our thief," Polgara started to follow, feeling stupid. Why couldn't she feel him as he was stealing from her? Usually she could feel a person's mind if they were near but some how this young man was blocking her.
Silk cussed and rushed into the crowd getting ahead of her as he picked his way through the crowd. Desperate for them not to get to far ahead.
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Ki couldn't believe that everything was going according to plan. She would distract the woman and the man while Tate stole the pouch of money at the woman's side. She felt her heart drop when the woman looked down when Tate cut the last of the string and had to tug on the pouch to fully separate it from her.
Ki remembered yelling at him to run but Tate isn't used to being caught and stood there acting like and idiot until she had to grab his arm and forced him to move.
They weaved through the crowd trying to escape but the man and woman was close on their heels. Tate suddenly took a left turn into an ally and Ki accidently let go of his arm and tried to follow him but only succeeded in bumping into someone knocking herself down. She felt someone roughly pick her up.
"Follow me, I know somewhere safe." A low voice said.
It took a moment for Ki to realize that she knew this person; it was the old man from earlier who called Ki out on her deception. Nodding she followed and the man took her to another ally. He looked out into the crowd and nodded satisfied. "She'll be here soon."
Ki looked at him, surprised, "What a minute, who would be here? You told me you were going to take me somewhere safe!"
The old man turned to her and smiled, "This is somewhere safe, until the Beloved Daughter finds you."
"What are you talking about?" Ki began to back away the old man followed her. "Look, if you let me go I promise half of whatever me and my brother stole today."
The old man shook his head and stretch out an arm. "I'm sorry but this would hurt, if there was any other way for the prophecy to be fulfilled I would do that but there is no other way."
Ki's couldn't move as the old man put his hand on her forehead. Extreme pain interrupted through her body and her head felt like it was going to explode. She yelp startled at the sudden pain but as the pain increased she felt her knees give away the old man caught her and sat her down with her back to a wall.
Vaguely before she lost consciousness Ki heard the old man say, "The prophet has awakened."
