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The prince quickly becomes enamoured with the city, moving from one place to another to accost strangers and look through windows. His curiosity even takes him up to peoples homes, giving at least one rat wife a fright. Unbound, and free, the prince look to have forgotten why you are out here in the first place.
After almost losing him in a crowd of people, you consider taking hold of his long ponytail and controlling him like a dog.
"My pri-" a force of habit. "ehem, my.. Friend? perhaps you should take hold of my hand so that we do not lose each other."
The prince may be happy to be out and about, but he seems to still have a chip on his shoulder about something "Hmmp, so that I my look like your gay lover? Try to control yourself, I doubt such a thing would help us stay inconspicuous."
You consider the ponytail option a second time. "Oh, are we trying to stay inconspicuous? I must have missed it with how you have been shoving your nose into every crack along the way."
The prince rolls his eyes and starts to pick up random objects off some merchants table.
"my pri-" again, almost. "Lets do what we came out here to do first yes? Our disappearance will eventually be noted."
"sigh, fine. So who is your contact anyway?"
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In a nondescript alley way, you find "the" Rat sitting in a circle with some other rats, gambling. So enthralled in watching each other for signs of cheating, you are able to get the jump on them.
"Hello Rat, its been a minute."
The hairs of every rat present stand on end. Without even knowing who you are, each and every rat dives upon the pile of ill gotten gambled goods to take the largest slice possible, before turning tail and running in every direction. Your Rat is no different, unfortunately for her you have already experienced this tactic and have reached out to grab her by the shirt. You lift the rat off the ground as she continues to run in mid air.
She squeals "WHAT EVER IT IS I DIDN'T DO IT, IT WAS MY SISTER, I BOUGHT THIS STUFF FAIR AND SQUARE, MY MOTHER IS SICK I NEED THE MONEY, I HAVE VERY IMPORTANT FRIENDS, MY LITTLE BROTHER-"
"STOP" you interrupt her. "Your little brother has a broken foot and needs you to take care of him, I know."
She looks up and see's her captor "YOU AGAIN? What did I do this time? We were squared up!"
"I'm not here to arrest you, I'm here because I need your help." You pull a golden coin from your pocket. Waving the coin back and forth mesmerizes the rat allowing you to slowly drop her to the ground.
You flick the coin into her hands and its gone. The Rat's attitude changes from desperate to haughty. She turns her nose up at you. "You need my help eh? Tsk, why should I help you exactly? I'm a busy women, I don't work for free." She looks around the gambling sight. "I had those suckers right were I wanted em. Was right about to make my come back!"
