Thief for Hire

She wandered through the open-air market of an impoverished Earth kingdom city, buying food and a few "fancy" clothes local craftsman generated in hopes of keeping their families fed. She loved the open-air markets and bazaars for their nostalgic value and for the fact that she could buy what she needed without a guilty conscious. Still, it was getting hard to do even that, all she had left were seven silver pieces, 2 copper pieces, and 1 gold piece. "I guess it's about time I got a new job." She sighed, looking over a cart of cabbages. Her last job had been a nightmare: her former boss, a noble from a good sized costal city, was a complete pig. Making her clean overtime with no pay, making her wear demeaning outfits, attempting unsavory designs on the young woman secretly robbing him; the job only lasted two months, but it felt like twenty years to her. Her next job would be a real treat though, it was personal after all.

"Excuse me sir," she asked the old shopkeeper, "how far away am I from Gaoling?"

"Oh, no more than a few miles as the crow flies, practically within a day's walk."

"Thank you," out of the corner of her eye she noticed a young boy, no older than five, snatch a cabbage off the cart and sprint off. Without making a huge fuss, she pulled out three silver pieces and handed them to the old man, "here, for your troubles."

"Oh, thank you young lady. You wouldn't believe all the horrible events befalling me and my cabbages!" she turned away from the cart and followed the little boy into a back alley, where he was tearing into the cabbage at lightning speed. He looked up briefly be for stopping all together and shying against the wall, the young woman was looming over him with a harsh glare. She made note of his filthy and torn clothes and retrieved her last gold piece, dropping it at his shoeless feet, "Next time you want a cabbage, ask him if you can be his apprentice."

Just outside of Gaoling she found it, brand new and bearing the coat of her bastard Noble in the corner.

Wanted:

Shadow Bandit

Details mostly unknown

Travels underground, thought to reside in the woods

Reward: 5,000 gold pieces.

"Wow, I pissed him off that much?" she thought, ripping down the poster and looking it over. At least the artist depiction was mostly wrong: the hair was pure black instead of white, the eyes were green instead of extremely light blue, and of course there's the fact that the drawing on the poster was that of a man, not a woman. Well, accurate or not, she didn't need bounty hunters scouring Gaoling for her during her most triumphant heists; she ripped up the wanted poster and let the wind scatter the pieces.

Right underneath the wanted poster sat a poster she didn't expect to find: a help wanted ad from her specific targets:

Governess Wanted:

Apply at the Bei-Fong estate

Must have experience with caring for girls, and be willing to work with the blind

Males need not apply

Five silver pieces an hour per services.

"Perfect." She hummed, rolling up the poster and stuffing it under her arm, "I don't think I could find a better job if it hit me with a hammer.