A door slams shut. A man with black and whiting hair and short trimmed beard cursing behind the door "Fucking gutter rats kill the lot of em'!" yelling to his wife.
A small body lies in the filth of the alley way outside the butchers shop. Grim covers blonde hair to the point that its brown and in clumps matted to her body with some stray hair. Used clothes stolen from somewhere and thick with grim scratches her skin. Pain erupting from her back from the butcher tossing her into the wall. Small dirty hands clenching a small bit of raw meat in her hands taken from the buchers shop holding the life line of food.
Slowly the girl gets up pain erupting from her back only holding her prize tighter as she runs from the butchers shop. Stone buildings line a stone street as bare feet run accross them. Less and less people lined the streets as those feet pattered the ground and those that did were wearing less clothes or looked more sinister as they pattered on.
The girl stopped at an alleyway and ran through running through filth and grabage reaching a little alcove in the wall. Her hand pressed a single brick and a small door way opened up and she jumped inside before hastily closing it behind her. inside there were a bunch of kids around a metal can with a small fire. She hastily ran towards it hands showing her prize as small faces turned towards her.
"Jewels what did you get today?" the older looking boy asked with a stern expression.
The girl smiled as she presented a venisin steak from the butcher. A small cute chuckle comes from her mouth as she explains "Hehe, Leader i quickly slipped into the butchers shop and as he was talking to a customer sneaked into the back and nabbed it hiding it in my arms..." She frowned as she continued "But he noticed me slipping in at the last second and found me but didn't notice i stole anything! but he threw me out"
The older boy smiled "Good work Jewels although we all know food not your specialty leave the to Globber and Slobber they know when best but still good work" The older boy praised, but then the boy sobered up "Grab a bit larger portion this time we need you on your feet Jewels".
*Jewels*
I ran up to the can giving the food to Stew who smiled with slightly yellowing teeth and gave the girl two apples and a steamed bun and the little girls stomach growled. "Leader says I can have a larger portion today Stew" The girl smilled showing her baby teeth.
Stew glared at the girl begrudgingly handing her a second steam bun and the girl skipped off. Happy to eat for the first time in two days. The boys yesterday didnt nab any food yesterday leaving us all hungry as all off felt the hunger pains. The meat I gained today was a bonus to go towards the boys too keep them stronger so i never made a issue with leader over the meat I gained. Today the boys out did themsleves with their desperation to get food and winter will be in a month or so. i ran to the corner of the hidden room we all stay in and ate my food away from others.
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We are a small gang of orphans living in a hidden room from time in the city of Armoss. Leader found the room a couple months back by luck and we all followed him to live here as hiding is the best thing when it comes to the city guards. Our group is now risen to infamy with the city guards as the gutter rats that can hide too damn well. I smile at the thought. I was known as Jewels with quick fingers I am our pick pocket and theif of higher end stuff.
Leader not to long ago met some fences that wanted their rivals hurt and im the one that did the dirty work. But my name came from my obsession with them. I have some stones in my pockets i never gave to fence from one of my jobs an nice clear one the size of my thumb is my favorite. I had a real hard time on that job not with the theft itself but where it was.
The job was in the noble district far from the slums and i stand out. I had to go at the darkest of nights with no moon and creep in. now i have this stone that i love so clean and pure i can stare at it for hours. But other than me we have Globber and Slobber both of which are in charge of our food stealing and security. Stew and she is in charge of food once taken. Rat who spys on the other gangs and information and never forgets to steal from them when he can and leader keeping us all together.
Foot steps come closer and i see leader coming towards me and i smile at him as im finishing my food. "Jewels a fence wants you to hit a house tommorow" he looks at me and i tilt my head.
"Leader who does he want me to hit?" I ask it is weird for leader not to just tell me and i just go do it when right.
"The Noble family Whites. Apparently they have a enemy thats willing to pay a ton in gold for the noble family to take a hit with no connections to them." he did not look happy to say that. But continued "They are also willing to pay up front enough gold for all of us to eat for a year we need this but only if you say yes"
I look at him in dismay. The Whites are a famous family here as the noble family who owns half of Armoss or so i heard. A year of food though up front was good though most of my other jobs excluding my side jobs pay for a month of food. "Leader a day is too soon i need to see what missings there are and how i can get in three days is the earliest i can do. If they have a problem with that then they can go lick Slobber for all i care i wont do it but i can take a look tommorow night." i say putting on a air of confedence but knowing that the money upfront was to much to down turn but if i rush i will get caught.
"Alright you got it Jewels but we need this please do it tommorow night if they pay me and wont take the delay." leader sternly said and my head lowers and i reluctently nod. Leader slowly gets up ruffles my hair and walks off to talk to the others and i lay down to get some sleep.
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I awake and everyone else is asleep in our home and i slowly get up and ready i might have told leader that I will start tommorow but from how he talked im going to be doing it tommorow night and i need to scout. I leave our hidden home and slowly creep out into the alley way and towards the noble district.