My feet make little noise and on a dark night with little moon light not fully risen i make my way the streets looking cleaner and cleaner guards more frequent. I hide and sneak through the streets, The guards do not welcome my kind. I'm traceless in the night as I reach the inner city walls of Armoss. Guards on top of the wall patrolling and at the gates. Stone has one problem though its climbable when build with small cracks in the wall between stones. It is not a easy climb though but my small fingers fit enough for a grip.

I slowly creep up the walls and its a long climb but I already know my route its not the first time i have climbed this wall and wont be the last. As i reach the top the guards are walking by and i hold myself up my arms and legs getting sore holding me up. The guards pass by and I make the final stretch leaping over onto the other side and climb down very carefully. One thing i noticed when i climb these walls its easier on my arms and legs to go down, but its a lot more difficult to find places to put my feet and takes longer then going up.

I finally make it to the bottom i dash to a hiding spot nearby to rest up. I always climb the same spot for three reasons. First it has a blind spot from the guards on the way up at the gate so i can get to the wall and high enough before anyone looks. Second the patrol never stops there for some reason but the first time i planned to get into the Noble district and they just don't. Last reason is there is two shops near the wall on this side and a little hiding spot where these houses meet and a small hole i can slide into and hide loot that is to heavy. The hole breaks into the nobles sewer line but the hole is small and i just get in. I also dubbed this my treasure trove.

I have robbed a lot of stores in the nobles district and out the guards have been ramping up looking for me but they do not expect that my loot isnt far from them. I crawl in and look over my loot with a smile one day i will get this and run to another city or kingdom sell it where no one knows its stolen. I also keep tools here though making this a must stop for me.

I take a moment looking at my loot, my treasure of pretty rocks that i know are valuable but are for myself. No the real loot here are the rings and weapons and armour i have each with a feeling of power. I stole tese from magic shops only value to nobles that call themselves mages but they have money to pay a lot.

But eventually my mind wanders to the job that im suppose to do. There were two places in the city I dont rob. First is the mages tower on the far end of the Nobles district because magic is unknown i dont know how to deal with it i just steal quietly from places that sell the stuff with a loop hole people for some reason do not think about where they go to the bathroom is a hole you can crawl up without enchantments in all of those places. The Second places is those of nobles they are guarded to the max with personal guards even inside, dogs outside and enchantments on the house.

I frown all those reasons were in place still but the money now was needed. Did need take over safety is the question tonight. I moved to the back of my treasure cove to how i get around in the noble district like my back yard the sewers. move the bricks that are in place that make it look like the wall and slip into it moving the bricks back.

The Sewers in the Noble district are cleaner then the streets of the slums but not by a lot. There was a water way with a stone path beside it to move the filth to where the nobles didnt see it the slums. At some point the sewers surface to the city somewhere in the slums but the city guards guard that spot and make use of it as a punishment post. No one wants to guard the sewers i heard guards say when one of them were gossiping and i agree. It smells its filthy but its not any worse then the slums where i live. I creep along the path walking by lanes that ive robbed in the past.

The path to the Whites place is a place I know in the sewers but never been down the passage way because its a nobles place. As such i continued for a while going down tunnels in a maze going to every part of the nobles places until i reach the the tunnel that takes me to their house and stop. I slowly peek down it and only see anouther tunnel down the way. A slow down even further and make sure that not even a footstep rings out or a patter these tunnels echo. Thats when i start to hear voices in the connecting tunnel and i creep forward sticking to the darkness.

"Then the little bitch bites me man i couldnt beleve it so i smack her so hard she gets knocked out." I hear a voice say. Another replying "Well did you still fuck her anyway i mean you were there anyway just 'cuz she new wouldnt stop me" "Of course i did I spent 5 silver to get a fresh tight one Im not wasting that" the first voice sounded insulted that he thought otherwise and i tuned out there brothel talks wasnt a place i wanted to be and glad i was picked up by leader then the sick fucks running those places.

The Guards were sitting at a table with smoke in a small little pot in the middle making the place smell better with some drinks. Totally into their conversation with a door slightly open but the sewer water way continued forward but without the walkway on the side. Looks like here i get to swim i hate this part but this is my life and ive been in worse. Try the slums.

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I get in slowly not making a sound with my pack in my hands i hug the side with the guards and use my feet to go up the waterway without a sound. The Guards so into the conversation the dont notice me slip by into the closed off area. I creep for a bit before it opens into another area with guards on the side but they seem more into the job or a silence that seems like someone just said something they shouldnt. I pause. I peek the corner with my head enough to hear and see.

The Silence was pregent and i was hoping it would be over soon between these two guards they are holding me up but they seem insistant on not looking at each other and everywhere else. I wait and wait when finally someone says something. "Dude I didnt know she was your wife." That was all it took and the one hit the other in the face. The two ended up in a brawl and i made my way past a little quicker then i would like but still silent. Then i made it past with hearing footsteps going towards the brawlers as they yelled at each other.

Distraction on the guards i can even hear up ahead the footsteps going away. I moved faster leaving stealth behind as the noise covered my movement. I came to the next ledge and i left the water into another chamber and i looked around that smell stuff going i looked around with several small tunnels and i almost smile but i refuse to. Those are my way in.

I take a second and find the one moving the cleanest water and go into that water way with my pack above my head. I pick the cleanest water 'cuz it means its the least used. As i move forward i enter a dark tunnel with no light and i use one hand to hold my bag the other to feel when the roof gone when it is i feel infront of me for the walls and get my to work unlike city walls these surfaces tend to be smother and i use this item i call wall climbers to climb up i have no idea how they work but they do. i stand up and take my wall climbers out and slowly make my way up.

After a bit of climbing i encounter some steel grate with just enough room for me to sqeeze past. I stand on the grate and lift the stone cover ever so slowly and met with a dark bathroom. I crawl out of the sewer and use some cloths they have around to wipe myself down and throw them back into the sewers i dont want to leave a wet trail so i take my time. Its night time and i dont want them to notice a mess or track me until Im long gone.

After starting i noticed a small bit of soap and i use that to confuse my smell and wipe the dirty water off me. After 5 clothes that i disposed of in the sewer I creep up to the door. I slowly open it and peek around the corner and see a empty hall with no light i slowly creep out into the house making sure to leave the door open a crack and start to memorize my route back to the bathroom. I hear in the distance what I am pretty sure are servants. The first door I see though is a big wooden double doors. Not far from where I can escape so lets give it a shot. I slowly open it with a slight creek it gives way to a bedroom.

SCORE! if im right this is no servents quarters this is the motherlode of someone importants room Jewels there should be Jewels. I smile and creep in slowly making as little noise as possible and i hear snores erupt all of the sudden almost makeing me sqeal in fright. In the room to my right is a mirrior showing a messy filth swiped little girl atop a dresser with items on top to my left was a huge bed and a girl older then me snoring. There was another door by the dresser which is the next spot i will check out. I get to the dresser and look at the things on top a brush with jewels as a back, A green pin that looked pretty with white rocks on the top. I take them and put it in my pack. i look over the desk and see vials of liquid since a noble has them on display they must be of value. I creep over to the door thats beside the dresser and open it slowly and it doesnt make a noise and i see clothes. Lots of clothes some i wish i could take and fence but would be ruined by my escape. I look for things that i can clean later and have value.

After looking i find it the Treasure trove of this girl and i caught myself drawn to it like i could never stop looking. This girl had my dream inside was another room of just Jewels necklaces and bracelets and crown looking things and rings i wanted it all. I take myself out of a trance and i head back to her clothes and grab a bag looking thing with nothing to close the top. I start grabbing my loot. Only small stuff rings braclets and necklaces all cleared out and into my bag then pins and my bag was getting full. I couldnt take more than this or i wont make it out and the fence gets what he needs.

I slowly take my way out of the treasure room and close it behind me I make my way out from the clothes and close that door behind me and lastly the bedroom and dont close it.... It Creaks. I get back to the bathroom and get in the sewers closing the lid as i go ever so slowly. My feet on the grate i lower myself down slowly and creep my way back the guards are still mising and i hear yelling still but no longer sounds like a arguement. I creep in the waterway one hand making sure my loot stays in the bag in the water the other my tools out. i get by the three guard checkpoints i think they are called with no one there they must be with their boss. I got out i got lucky and stole from a noble i crawl out of the water way once Im out from the checkpoints line of sight and make it slowly and make it back to my treaure trove.

New loot in hand I smile and hide out looking at it all. Jewels you did it again and this time you have enough for a life time. After some time with my loot i take the pin as proof im the one who did it and crawl out of my Treasure trove after hiding it all in there and start my trek up the wall and down back to the Slums. I hide the pin as my small feet patter the dark streets back to home. Smile and all.