[Open; Come one and all!]

[diedthesage]

[1]
While camping considerably close to City Hall to make sure they were around for all that gold snatching, Nabooru and her girls have started a contained campfire to ward off against the cold. They're mostly all sitting around chatting amongst themselves, laughing more often than not. One of them probably waves to you, beckoning you over with a sweet smile. Why not share the warmth? Nabooru herself seems to be dealing with another girl who is handing her a new winter cloak with their recognizable patterns down the back. For those that have ever traveled by desert or have come from the Earth Kingdom, they might be somewhat recognizable as the symbols of a well known band of thieves.

Getting close enough, Nabooru herself will take notice. "Go on and sit. The fire's free. The food isn't." They seemed to be cooking something that smelled decently pleasant.

[2]
On one of the nights the gold starts appearing at City Hall, Nabooru is ready to fly into action. With the ease of her thieving skills, she will manage to gather quite more than her fair share. She doesn't fight fair, either, using her bending abilities like nobody's business. If shifting a bunch of earth underneath someone to get an advantage is necessary, she will do it. And when she's settled on that her pockets are just full enough, she'll be taking off! Watching her back to make sure no one is following her, however, doesn't leave her eyes set so forward. A rookie mistake. Honestly, she's better than that. But eventually that is bound to get her in trouble, running right into another body, sending the gold filling her pockets clattering with a jaunty jingle straight to the ground. "Hey!" Because clearly, that was your fault, wasn't it?

[3]
The only thing Nabooru likes better than stealing is reading. She loves getting lost in fantasy worlds like no other. And so she's taken to visiting one of the ritzier book shops in the better part of town. Their books didn't have highlights and tons of earmarks or cracked spines. She wanted her books to be hers ... regardless of if they were cheesy romance novels or not. But as she's never gotten herself truly documented since skipping from the desert, on this particular trip she gets thrown out- but not before making a ton of noise. No one can deny her her books! ....but that's exactly what's happening.

((First and second are pretty self explanatory (though for the first if you want to recognize the Gerudo as the thieving band of possible murderers who once roamed the deserts outside the Earth Kingdom that's fine too!), the third you can catch her in the middle of fighting with the clerk about how ridiculous the ID thing is or right after she gets thrown out of the store and the doors shut in her face. Anything goes! All are welcome.))

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[paybent]

Gumshoe has been walking a beat, trying to control some of the chaos that came with the appearing gold. When suddenly, he gets bumped into. Being a big guy, he doesn't get knocked back that much, but he quickly scratches at his head with an apologetic frown.

"Whoa! Sorry there, pal... I didn't watch where I was going!" He was walking at a normal speed at the very least. "Need a hand?" He glances down at the ground. Is that a lot of gold that spilled out of her pockets...?

[diedthesage]

Much bigger than Nabooru is used to bumping into- although his burly physique does remind her of a certain someone. Something that puts her in a bad mood. She manages to catch herself before she falls and makes the scene worse, but she has to catch her own fall with a few quite paces backwards to do so.

"It's fine." A little more curtly than she knew she should be speaking. Especially considering the circumstances. "It wasn't you it was me." She was, after all, running.

[paybent]

The scruffy detective gives a sheepish smile and scratches at his head as he listens to her. "Well, maybe... You're the one who was running, but I'm the one who could've moved out of the way more easily. How about we call it even, pal?"

He tried to remain good-natured, used to dealing with curt people. Although the more he looked at her, the more he could have sworn he heard something about women with hair like that.

[diedthesage]

Women like her. Dark skin, long noses, glorious and wild red manes, gold eyes- she fit the description to a T. So far her luck had been rather good, much better than back in the Earth Kingdom, anyway, when they decided to go test their luck. Hardly anyone recognized her lineage. But that didn't mean she'd be lucky forever, and she knew that.

"Even suits me just fine." She just had to be careful. To make it less like she was a criminal (though she'd fight on that, to her knowledge she wasn't stealing anyone's money specifically...). And to do that she had to appear... less dodgy. Which was hard. She smiled easily regardless. "You have a habit of walking the streets at night?" As if she were one to talk. But casual conversation could pull favor towards her.

[paybent]

It did all seem to check out, with what he had heard around the station about that tribe of women from the desert. Still, Gumshoe wanted to keep the benefit of the doubt. With all the gold that was appearing around town, it had become hard to tell who was stealing and who wasn't. The scruffy detective chuckled a little as he answered her.

"Actually, pal, it's kind of part of the job. I'm a police detective, and I guess you could say this is part of my beat tonight."

[diedthesage]

A cop. Of course. What else could he possibly be? Her luck never ran as far as she wanted it to. ...but then again, who knew. Maybe she could turn this in her favor. Somehow.

"You're not policing around City Hall, are you? Best to just let the mongrels sort it out amongst themselves." No, no. That was the absolute wrong thing to say. If he was a cop, he was likely out for the good of the people.

[paybent]

He frowned, with a tilt of his head. "Hey, that's not very nice... A lot of them are just innocent people caught up in the situation. And as police, our job's to protect and serve!" With a brief swell of confidence, he proudly salutes. "Some of my pals are covering the area right now, so things shouldn't be so bad." They have been spread thin lately, so things might not be perfectly under control regardless.

[diedthesage]

She already knew before he served back that what she'd said was wrong. Cops had the interest of the people at heart- surely. Maybe not her people... but this was a new city. New opportunities ... and yet the Gerudo were still all up to their old tricks. She didn't feel much remorse about it.

"I can agree with that." And she really could, too. "I think a lot of them are just family people trying to provide." Free gold was too hard to pass up for poor people. "Let's hope your boys can keep the peace."

[paybent]

Not all cops protected those interests. But Gumshoe's tried his best to live up to what cops should be, even if he's ended up blundering a lot of the time. He gave her a confident smile and saluted.

"Don't you were! Republic City's best of the best are on it! I mean, a lot of the best of the best of the best might be missing... but the people who are on it are pretty darn good, pal! We'll do our best to make sure the money goes to those who need it!"

[diedthesage]

Nabooru couldn't help a soft chuckle at that. Her hands went to her hips. She'd never made friends with the supposed law-upholders before, but what could it hurt? Like this there was no way she could crouch down to pick up the gold she'd dropped, but that was okay.

"You got a name, detective?"

[paybent]

Gumshoe wasn't ready to judge her either, even if she did look like one of those thieves. Maybe they could be great friends! He scratched at his head a little sheepishly. "Gumshoe. Er... Dick Gumshoe, that is. That's what they call me!"