(Scars do not appear to be cause of death –shock ... - Bad Request

"All right..."
Annah put me through the paces. At the end of a short while, she took a
step back and nodded, impressed. "Aye, yeh've got the hang of it. Quick to
catch on, yeh are. 'A course that's only th' beginnin'. There are four skills any
good cutpurse needs ta know..."
"Stealth, lockpicking, pickpocketing, and finding traps, right?"
She nodded, "Aye. Yeh got the basics down, I'll give yeh that. We can begin
with vanishin' from sight. 'Tis me specialty." Her lip curled into a crooked
grin.
"I gathered."
"Aye, well, the trick to being not-seen is knowing where yeh are and how
quick yeh can become PART of where yeh are. There's some tricks I've
learned - one is tae hide in a place where someone's not expectin' to look -
like on the ceiling of a room -- or even change yer hiding place when they're
lookin' for yeh..." She smiled wickedly. "There was one time I was hidin'
from this brace of hardheads... the 'law'... an' what I did was..."
We went through the motions as she told her tales, ducking behind shadows
of old pillars, pausing between one dash to another. We even put it to the
test... prowling quietly from shadow to shadow as the Harmonium passed
by, their clanking armor distraction enough from any soft-shoed padding
about we would've made.
Annah continued as we leaned against the wall of the Civic Festhall. The
stone was strangely warm against my back even as the still night air pecked
at my skin with cold, "...an' so, there the hardhead was, face down in ditch
water, his breeches gone, and the rest of his three fellas locked in the
great-grandam's room, with her howling to the skies." Annah takes a breath.
"An' there yeh are. If yeh can put the same thing to good use, it might help
yeh hide when yeh really need to."
"So let's see: be sure to fall back to places you know well, preferably in
surrounding where there are other distractions - and if there aren't any,
make some."
She nodded. "Aye, that's the dark of it. Now, on ta lockpickin'. Pickin' at
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