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(suspenseful music plays) The Thieves' Guild

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by Jake Kerr.

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Episode 39:

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The Old Quarter.

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The blade of the Craft Guild realized his mission
would be much more

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difficult than he expected when less than 20 steps
into the Wretched Quarter a

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man in a torn and dirty black robe confronted him.

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The blade was covered in filth, had on a dirty and
torn yellow tunic, and

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should have looked like any other wretched Craft
Guild citizen returning from across the river.

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Yet the man made a beeline to him. "Name your
guild," the man asked.

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"I am a custodian. I clean the floors in the
Warehouse District."

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The blade couldn't quite believe he was seeing a
man in black.

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Maybe there was some roving gang that liked to
pretend they were the Heir of Pietro

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or something. He dropped his hand to the stiletto
sheathed against his leg.

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"Where do you live?"

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The blade nodded in some vague direction.

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"Over that way."

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"Which street?"

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The man in black was not backing down.

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The blade couldn't quite figure out what was going
on, but he didn't want to raise any alarms either.

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"Who wants to know?"

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The blade hoped that moving to an aggressive
approach might do the trick.

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The gang member was probably used to people
cowering in front of him.

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To the blade's shock, the man in black didn't even
ask another question.

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He reached out and grabbed the blade by the arm.

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"You're coming with me." The man's grip was like
iron, and the blade

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was yanked nearly off his feet.

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Looking around, he was surrounded by quite a few
people, but not enough to stop his

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escape, which was good as he had very few options.

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He couldn't follow the man. He had no idea what
this gang had in mind.

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Did this criminal element rule the Wretched
Quarter?

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And how did the man know that the blade was not a
resident?

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With a fluid motion, the blade pulled his
stiletto, sliced it across the

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back of the man's hand, and as he let go, the
blade sprinted off to the

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Great Bridge. There were no knights in white on
this side.

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It was lawless, and the blade used that to his
advantage, darting in and

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out among the sad faces that were leaving or
heading to their jobs in Ness proper.

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By the time he walked into the Lower Quarter, the
blade realized that his mission to

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find and kill Raylan had just become much more
difficult, and it had been

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difficult to start with.

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Something about him tipped off the roving gangs in
that lawless,

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sad excuse for a city, so he would have to head
back in the shadows,

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avoiding people and looking for Raylan without
revealing his presence.

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The blade shook his head. He had hated the
Wretched Quarter before, but

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now that he knew that it was even more violent and
full of chaos than even he had

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thought, he hated it even more.

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Like his guild master, he wanted it burned to the
ground.

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The Mines.

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Despite the fact that Polo was tossing her into
prison, Maela had to admit that he was at

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least nice about it. He told the guards to treat
her well and to give her food for the

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journey, even as they were to lock her up in the
most secure prison of the guild.

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Maela wasn't even sure where the Harvest Guild
prison was located.

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It wasn't under Harvest House. Other guilds had
their prisons deep under their

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guild towers, but Harvest House seemed too small
and vibrant for a stone

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prison.

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She sat in the darkness with a loaf of bread in
her hands as the locked and barred coach

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started down the road. The road led in three
directions, toward Trader's

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Bridge and the center of Ness to the northeast and
the Outer Fields, and to the

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southwest and the Silo District.

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Figuring the prison was most likely out beyond the
wall in the Outer Fields, Maela

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sat back for a long ride.

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The clip-clop of the horse's hooves on the
cobblestones was calming at first.

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After an hour or so, however, she was finding the
persistent knocking annoying,

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and two hours after that, Maela was ready to never
ride in a coach again, the

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repetitive sound driving her crazy.

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At one point, she heard the sound of rushing water
and assumed that the coach was

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crossing the North Fork, far to the north of the
Outer Fields.

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It made sense to her, as no one in Ness would ever
go out that far, and its

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seclusion would be a good place for a prison.

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She expected the maddening sounds of the hooves to
end soon.

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Much later, as Maela sensed that the coach was
climbing a hill and had traveled so

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far as to be well past the Outer Fields, it hit
her.

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The prison was in the mines. It made so much sense
that Maela

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couldn't believe she hadn't thought of it first.

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The mines were under the control of the Harvest
Guild, and the mines themselves

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were made up of dozens of passages. All the
Harvest Guild had to do was find

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some shaft that was no longer producing ore and
turn it into a

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remote prison. For the first time during the
entire mission, Maela was

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frightened. She had the arrogance of the thieves
in her that every prison in the city

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had some method of being beaten. She and Raylan
had proven that when they broke

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Alard free from the Night Guild prison.

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But a solitary cell deep in the mine seemed
outside the capabilities of even the

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thieves. Her fears were confirmed when the coach
stopped and the door was

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opened. She looked out on a dim cavern lit by
torches.The

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guards helped her down and, to her relief,
continued to treat her

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well. Escape was out of the question.

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They were deep in the mines and even if she got
away from the guards, where could she go?

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There was one way in and out and she was quite
sure it was heavily guarded.

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It was a short walk to her cell, which was a cube
cut out of pure

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rock with heavy iron bars at the front.

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She entered and turned as the guard closed the
door and locked it.

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An armed guard wearing a flowing green cape walked
up.

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We are to treat you well, but that luxury will be
lost if you try to escape or you treat your

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guards with disrespect.

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And he turned to leave.

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May I ask a question?

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Mailer replied. The guard slowly turned and walked
back.

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One question.

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When will I be released?

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Mailer pondered how angry Polo could be.

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He knew that she was not trying to harm him, so
perhaps he just wanted to teach her a

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lesson.

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The guard stared at her for a while and then shook
his head.

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I assumed you knew.

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He stepped forward and there was kindness in his
voice, even as his words were spoken

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with the force of a command.

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You are to live the rest of your life in this
cell.

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He looked at the shock on Mailer's face and
continued with a sigh.

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If you would prefer to end your life, I can
provide a rope or a knife.

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You may ask your guard at any time.

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The guard turned to leave, but paused and turned
back to Mailer.

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I had forgotten. Guildmaster Polo told me to give
you this.

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He reached into a small pouch, pulled out a single
red rose,

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and tossed it on the floor at Mailer's feet.

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And without another word, the guard of the Harvest
Guild turned and walked out into

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the dim light.

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Mailer looked around her small cell.

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"No one knows I'm here," she thought.

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With that sobering thought in her head, Mailer
focused on assessing how she could

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escape.

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When she had been trapped or imprisoned in the
past, she could always find hope

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or opportunity.

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In the bowels of the Harvest Guild prison, all she
could find was solid rock

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and a single red rose.

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(dramatic music)