Completed A Thief in the Market

[Valdyor Avenca]

79, Spring, 513 A.V.

Valdyor walked into the market with a soft smile. The place was relatively crowded and it was busy. Perfect for snatching a coin purse without getting caught. He kept himself away from most of the jostle of the crowd and people that saw him did their best to avoid him. Especially the women. Even here, in Zeltiva, people had heard of the Harvest and were worried about a Symenestra abducting them.

Still, the crowds were close, and while a jostling crowd did make him slightly nervous, his frail structure not used to such things, his chitin armor was protective and light and he knew the closer people were, the easier it would be to snatch some cash. Valdyor wandered the market, eyeing up marks and making a pretense of looking at items on stands.

As he walked, he smiled as a merchant turned away from his stand to shout at a passing couple, hawking his wares. Valdyor quickly snatched an apple from the stand and walked away, tossing it in his hand and smiling. He quickly bit into it and began to liquefy its internal makeup, holding it in his hand for later eating. He smirked as he headed towards his mark. He quickly walked past, bumping into the man and lifting his coin purse from his belt, slipping it into his pouch as stealithly as possible, turning to help hide the motion as he did so.

"So sorry, I was not watching where I was going properly. I hope I have not given any offense," Valdyor said, his speech soft and lilting slightly.

[Valdyor Avenca]

The man grumbled something in a language Valdyor didn't understand, before moving on. Valdyor smirked and walked off, glad to have gotten something for his trouble and not having been called out. Yet. With that in mind, Valdyor headed out from the market, carrying his still dissolving apple as he left.

Once out of the market, he pulled out the coin purse and hefted it in his hand. It was disappointingly light, but it was more than he had a minute ago, so he took that with a grain of salt. He put the purse back in his belt and continued back out of the city, to his camp site. Hopefully he would get far away before the man realized he had lost his purse. And with so many people in the market, there would be no way he could pin the crime on Valdyor.

At that thought, Valdyor grinned and walked out of the city, biting into the apple and slurping down the dissolved juice inside, eating slowly and letting the fluid slide down his throat pleasantly.

[Tersay]

Tersay stalked Valdyor out the crowded market. Seeing as she had just moved to Zeltiva, she was a little surprised to find the inhabitants so nonchalant about a snow leopard calmly pawing her way through the city. She shook herself out, attempting to get rid of the dust that her fur seemed to lustfully attracted to. Tersay narrowed her pale blue eyes as she watched the thief make his way out of the market; he wasn't going to get away so easily. Tersay sped up until she was only 20 feet behind the man, keeping her distance at the same time. Her lean body moved gracefully through the city and into the Symnestra's camp. Once there, she paused, wondering whether it would be better to confront him in animal or human form...

[Valdyor Avenca]

Valdyor smiled as he sat down and slurped down a bit more of the dissolved apple, before eventually tossing away the remains. It had served its purpose and it wouldn't do to sit for an hour and eat the remainder of the fruit. He smiled as he stretched out his limbs and worked out the stress of his muscles, not even noticing the snow leopard prowling nearby.

[Tersay]

Tersay glared at Valdyor from afar, gritting her sharp, carnivorous teeth angrily at the calmness of the their. How dare he commit such a crime without care? With that thought, she leapt out of cover and let out a large growl, slinking slowly closer to him.

[Valdyor Avenca]

Valdyor jumped as soon as the tiger appeared. He glared at the beast, realizing it must be a Kelvic. How else would such a beast be here? He scowled and readied his body, prepared for anything. If he had to, he could run and climb a tree and get out of reach. He would prefer to simply get rid of the annoyance that was here though. It was his camp after all. "Begone, fool. Your shapechanging does not deceive me," he said, baring his fangs to add venom, figuratively and literally if necessary, to the point.

[Tersay]

The Symenestra man appeared startled to Tersay and already he had made the mistake of inferring that she wasn't just a wild beast. Tersay crouched down, keeping her eyes focused on Valdyor, readying herself to leap on him. The snow leopard's long, pink tongue glided gracefully over her pure white mouth; she was a very thin creature.

[Valdyor Avenca]

Valdyor snarled at the creature and realized that, even if it was a Kelvic, or some other shape changer, it was a violent one. Still, he had only eaten a small bit of that apple, so his venom would be painful if nothing else. He only needed to get one good bite in and the little cat would be running for the hills, tail between its legs. He smirked and slowly began to back up, as if trying to get away. If he could get the creature to pounce, he would have all the opening he needed.

[Tersay]

Tersay didn't like the look on his face. Kelvics were known as unintelligent but, believe me, Tersay wasn't falling for it. Her eyes quickly darted to the right and the left, scanning over the terrain surrounding them before returning her gaze to Valdyor. Her posture relaxed and she lazily strolled up to the man, shaking out her fur of the dust that she had collected from the market. As she walked, she slowly began to transition from leopard to human and finally, when she was only about 20 feet from Valdyor, she stood a shocking 5' 11" tall. Tersay's pale blue eyes narrowed before she ran a hand through her short white hair and yawned.
"I am no idiot. Don't think you can fool me so easily."

[Valdyor Avenca]

Valdyor smirked and relaxed his posture just slightly, just enough to let his muscles be loose, but not enough to lose himself if he had to flee. "Oh, so you can understand me. Well then, you should know that, if you value your life, you ought to be running. A Symenestra is not the type of person you want to get involved in a fight with," he said, grinning devilishly.