"Don't touch that." I was in the shop across the street from me, he was an antiquities dealer (so technically was I, though he just sold old things and I really sold whatever would sell, so we were competition but not really).
"Oh please I'm not going to break one of your fake antiques, they are made so sturdy I don't think a simple touch could break them." See thats the nice thing about being as old as I was, I knew when something was more bullshit than real having seen the actual thing when it was made. Its why I didn't buy many antiques myself, they were mostly fakes, especially in a country that just came out of a big war.
"Its not fake, you're just an idiot." The shop keepers name was Harold, we had been neighbors since the end of the war, and we never talked, mostly because I knew he faked things and he smelled, and I do not fake things and do not smell (well most of the time, sometimes I can't help it).
"Whatever Harold, look I'm trying to find Jenkins have you seen him?" He got a perplexed look on his face.
"The tax collector?"
"Yes short has a mustache."
"Yes Lorentino I know who Jenkins is, why do you need to find him want to intimidate him to not pay property taxes?"
"I'm offended by that statement Harold, it came to my attention he's missing and I care deeply about him as a person." Harold shifted behind his desk, looking at me like I was trying to steal something.
"No you don't, you barely care about that shorty that works at your shop let alone any of the rest of us. No Lorentino if I had to guess Captain Therod threatened you with some seceret and now you are out here being her little lap dog, and I will not bow down to that woman, or you, get out of my store." I could see it was pointless talking to Harold (because I'm perceptive!) but I did find out he wasn't a fan of Therod for some reason and so I got a little suspicious. After I got the same reception at several of my other neighborhood shop keepers I grew more suspicious (again because I'm very perceptive). So I had a theory that I just had to tell Therod about, and let me tell you she totally bought it.
No no she didn't.
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