swiftly moving between streets Morgana soon found herself on the edge of the merchants district, settling on a street corner Morgana maintained her beggars personna occaisionally holding out her hands at passersby keeping an eye out for any of the pickpocket group. it was about an hour later when Morgana first noticed the young beggar boy carelessly stumbling through the crowds of haggling merchants occaisionally stoping to apologise to those he bumped into.

A slow smile spread to Morganas face as her eyes silently followed the boy, the supposedly clumsy boy who had very quick fingers and had single handedly stolen off every single one of the people he had "accidently" bumped into. The boy still maintaining his clumsy demeanor easily retreated back into the slums alleyways without drawring any attention to himself.

Smiling slightly in aproval Morgana followed the young boy through a long and complicated route obviously designed for shaking off persuers before the young boy finally entered a ramshackle hut tucked discreetly behind another larger shack. Entering the door without any discomfort or hesitation proved to Morgana that with a doubt that this was in fact the youths home.

Her customery sharks grin growing Morgana walked over to the door and knocked loudly, a tense silence settled over the hut as Morgana heard hesitant and worried shuffle within the hut. Several seconds later and finally the boy she'd followed earlier opened the door a gruff expression on his face that soon dissapeared when he saw her slovenly appearance. Afterall in his eyes law enforcement didnt look like bedraggled slum girls, but then again she could be so much worse than any law enforcement there was.

"Yes?" asked the boy still slightly weary, Morgana gave a harsh grin that made the boy flinch "Im here to talk with you and your siblings." the  boy surveyed her, finding no obvious weaponry he gave a tense nod and aloowed her to pass through the entrance where she was met with the faces of four more young children none of them older than eight. pushing past her and sitting in front of his sibling protectively the boy stared at her again "So what do you want with us?"

Morgana gave a slightly softer smile "I want to adopt you." the siblings stared at her in shocked silence before finally the eldest spoke "You're lying. You're not much older than us, and besides," he said casting a glance to her current bedraggled state "You dont look to be in the position to be helping anyone. We may be from the slums but were not stupid, now what do you want?"

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Morgana burst into laughter much to the surprise of the children "you're smart kid ill give you that much." the boys guarded state reappeared but Morgana simply continued speaking calmly "However in this case your also wrong, you said i was in no position to help anyone? You're wrong, but that doesn't matter i'm not here to help you. I'm here to use you." the boys guard relaxed slightly, slum children knew as well as any merchant that such easy deals never come as cheap as they seem, using and being used were much more familier ideas for such children.

"And what would we get in return?" Asked the boy a cocky smile appearing on his face, Morgana grinned and silently lifted the Ocean gem from beneath her clothes while watching the expressions of greed and wonder that appeared on the youths faces. "My name is Morganna known as the Queen of Thieves, i am offering you all a chance to work for me." THe five watched her with expressions mixed with disbelief and wonder with only open fear and hostility shown on the face of the eldest.

"We agree." He said simply ignoring the protest of his siblings "But brother.." started the youngest child, a girl who looked to be about six "No buts, the marking on her bag is proof enough and besides...." he gave Morgana a long look "Theres no way she'd leave us alive now we know all this. Morganas grin widened "Clever kid, but howd you know about the mark?"

The boy lowered his gaze "You spend enough time around merchants and youll here about the queen of thieves and her carriers.....especially what happens to those who oppose her." Morgana nodded "Correct, stay with me and i will help you rise, try to betray me and you'll be dead before you can." The oldest boy nodded and displayed a cheeky if not somewhat nervous grin "Well i never liked this countries royalty anyway, not a bad idea swearing to a new queen." And with that the boy, followed by his siblings, kneeled to Morgana. And so it began.