Serra Family/Zerool/The little child

Zerool's scout returns from his last mission and as order by his master he arrives at the tabern of Gwohadda

He walked to the end of the bar and asked for a beer while he knocked twice on the table with his ring. The signal was given...

The owner of the tabern serves him the beer while the scout gives some papers to the man under the table. The owner returns behind the bar and walks into the backroom, where all the bottles of liquor are stored.

"Here you have, sir"
"Thank you... And now what i promised..." sais Zerool while he gives some coins to the owner.

The taselakian infiltrator leaves the tabern through the backdoor and two streets to the north he meets his scout again.

"Very good work. Now send a copy of these reports to everyone of Taselak. Be very careful with this, there are very important documents. Once out of Gwohadda and in Yayhan, you'll have no problems to travel, but until there be aware and don't trust anybody."
"Yes, Sir... But one question; why have we done all that in the tabern if we met here again and can talk freely?"
"From now on we won't meet again in this street, it's too risky. I wanted to see if we could trust that tabern owner. He's a sandalakian. I told him i'm a black-market trader. If he achieves to know that i'm a taselakian infil... he will betray us for sure. But i see he has no idea what he's doing... Otherwise he would have been much more nervous."
"Didn't you fear that he opened them? That's why i ordered you to put wax to close it. I told him it was high important secret documents and i needed to be sure noone got to know it in between, for speculating prizes. He didn't care about that, but that gave me the security so he didn't open anything."
"Good idea, Sir"
"Thank you, but now hurry up and send a copy of this, they need it urgently."
"Sure!"

The scout leaves through the streets to find his horse. He has to travel to Yayhan and return as soon as possible. In the base of Yayhan, they would send a copy to Taselak city through allied lands without problems.

Zerool turns around and looks to the city of Gwohadda. Sandalak's banners are hold high, even though there are no sandalakian troops for already long time in there. The realm is clearly being defeated in the north front.

Suddenly, he notices someone else's hand in his pocket. Quickly he turns around and catches a little boy trying to steal his money. He holds his arm tight and sees the scared face of the boy. He knows very good what's the usual pain for the ones who steal. But infiltrator's work consist also in stealing, so he feels sympathy for that little child and gives him two coins.

"Hey, when you steal, never ever do it when the man is alone in the middle of the street. Try to do it when there are lots of men around and wait for him to come to you and "accidentally" run into him. Apologize kindly and keep going. In the moment you crash with him steal him. It's much easier and harder to notice."

The little child smiles and runs away.

"...Just like me..." thinks Zerool.