(Author's Note
So assuming that the Material Plane slipped into a Civil War
and Issac is about to get booted back into the Material Plane after being arrested for
being a wanna be assassin of the Sky King.
Even though Mary and the Cloud Plane humans might want to off the
Sky King,but if you're a sentient four footed Pegasus,centaur,were-deerwoman etc
you'd realize that if the Cloud Plane humans
decide that killing off monsters is perfectly legal and justified,all that's needed
is for those Cloud Plane humans to cast greedy eyes on the piece of land that
Charlie the Centaur owns and before you can say
"Justifiable Self Defense/Homicide
Charlie the Centaur is sprawled dead on the ground,his killer
saying that he thought
Charlie was a
were-monster who that outsider Issac was killing a while ago
its just a honest mistake that cost Charlie his life
Here's 200 Cloud shillings to the Orphaned Centaur Children Fund to show
theres no hard feelings)
So Mary reconsidered and gave the nice men pointing about twenty handguns at her
her sword and her necklace.
The leader of the Cloud Crawler Gang (Sir Jeremy Dashwood,who wants the thugs to
rob his Mansion of about 300 Cloud Shillings in beforehand arranged junk,so he could make a insurance claim
for 500 Cloud Shillings in stolen goods)
was a portly man who wore a orange hood over his face
just like the other thugs.
Mary wouldn't have known Sir Jeremy Dashwood even if he
had yanked off
the orange hood,however she
would have viewed him more as a older
butler then the secret leader
of the Cloud Crawler Gang.
The hooded leader ,his voice muffled by the hood
asked "Anything else?"
and that split second of hesitation on Mary's part told him there
was another valuable item/
"Ah,you have a money belt.Give IT Up"
"Now"
Mary protested,saying it only had 30 Cloud Shillings in it ( the truth) but
one of the thugs,on motioning from the leader
stepped forward and held out his hands expectantly.
Glowering at the lead,Mary removed her money belt and gave it to the waiting
thug who took it to the leader.
The leader opened up the money belt and counted the coins in it
"5 ...10...25....30"
You speak the truth
"Bah,not worth robbing this poor peasant woman of her
wages" snarled out the leader as he sealed up the money belt
and tossed it back to Mary before
he and his men melted back into the woods
Mary sat there for a while shaking from both terror and rage
before she picked up the money belt and
counted the coins inside
fully expecting that the leader had filched
5 or 10 Shillings.
"5....10...25....30....40....55....65"?"
What was going on thought Mary as
she realized there were more coins in the money belt the leader had tossed back
to her
then the one he'd received
She recounted
and yes there were 65 Cloud Shillings in it,not 30.
This appeared to be a "slightly" reverse robbery,not counting the
stolen sword and necklace
However up Mary got and headed to a nearby lodging for the night,to enjoy her newfound wealth