My heart beat, a caged bird attempting to escape my ribcage; I smiled. This was my favorite part, the aftermath, the adrenaline running through my veins, making me forget everything. I could feel the sun on my skin, and the echo told me where I was going; I could find my way no problem, shadows danced across my eyes, the light stung. Why did Jean send me out during the day? It was totally wrong, I'm a thieve, we don't work in the day, much less my kind of thief.

"Well lookie what we got here. Isn't it a little dangerous for a girl to be walking down these streets, alone?" The voice was familiar to me, I turned with a sneer on my face.

"Damn rippers, ain't got nothing better to than ta' pick on a girl? Din' your mere ever tell ya' its not nice ta' pick on girls?" I asked recognizing the classic signs of ripper boys the scent of rusted metal, and the rotten scent of the sewers, I was seriously uncomfortable. It was the middle of the day, I was out in the open, and backed into a corner. Shit.

My sixth sense shot off a warning even before I heard the draw of a blade. I felt the King of Hearts drift out of my full deck's pouch as the knife cut through the leather like butter.

"C'mon the Guild leader wants a word with you." One of the boys hissed.

"Wanna bet on it?" It may have been the middle of the day, but it was still a back alley at the edge of town I could fight like hell and I would, ain't no way this little devil's goin down without a fight.

I heard the air part, footsteps coming on both sides of me, I could feel them getting closer. I slammed my knee into one boys stomach, grabbed his neck and twisted my body around his so he went flying. The second boy had pulled what I'm assuming was a knife on me, I jumped gripping the wall behind me, nails digging in like claws. A rush of air flew past me, the sound of metal digging into the stone next to me with a crack I ripped a brick from the wall and threw it, aiming best I could based on the trajectory of the knife.

They could try but Regan Lilith LeBeau was not going down easy, oh no I was not.