"Weapon smugglers?" Oshujon (that's how I'll refer to him because frankly writing the marked one over and over again got tiresome the first time...) was at a small farm port on a river in the lands of the west. It was fifty years ago give or take a year (he didn't remember I didn't care), he had been summoned by one of the local farmers to discuss an issue the farmer felt was dire indeed.
"Yes Marked one."
"How can one smuggle something thats not against the law to transport?" Weapons in the land of the west were not against the law to own, or sell. Which was kind of surprising since the law in the lands of the west was so harsh on literally everything else, but I guess because of that they had no issue with everyone having a weapon? I have no idea, as you can guess I barely know the laws in the countries I've lived in (as my criminal history obviously represents).
"These were dangerous weapons." Oshujon sighed, I mean all weapons are dangerous thats hence their damn name.
"And you know these men were smuggling weapons because?"
"Because I saw them moving them around."
"Which means they were doing it openly?"
"No, well yes, but I'm telling you they are smuggling them!" Oshujon informed me that this conversation took over an hour to complete and the basic gist was that this farmer had seen other farmers moving weapons disguised in food crates, despite clearly this guy seeing them doing it so they weren't very good weapon smugglers if they were smugglers at all. These kind of things came up all the time for Marked Ones apparently, one person suspected his neighbors of wrong doing or just didn't like them and would tell some grandiose tale about what was going on and the Marked One (any of them really) would have to investigate on the off chance something was actually going on.
To me that sounds like it would be the actual interesting thing about being a Marked One but Oshujon assured me it was the worst part of the job. I mean admitting you were doing something wrong would get you killed, so of course no one ever admitting to doing something bad. And Marked One's weren't exactly hired based on their investigative experience so most of the time it was either walk away or kill everyone involved (including at times hilariously the person who reported it, did I mention law in the West sounded really awful? Because it totally does).
Oshujon prefered the walk away method since most of the time nothing bad was ever going on, but he admitted this time something was intriguing about it. Just the concept of doing something not against the law but hiding you are doing it, it was just too stupid not to look into (that's Lorentino logic I informed him and he harrumphed). So it came to pass Oshujon looked into the Crosspire farm and discovered well obviously a sword, but more than that of course, next entry etc etc.
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