Now, that sounds weird. What kind of job sends you all over? Nobody travels much at all where he lives--he's probably the best-traveled person he knows by virtue of having seen other neighborhoods. He has to to keep himself from being fingered for his pickpocketing.

Maybe the big ticket criminals in larger gangs in some of the nearby streets travel, but they have no one telling them what to do, Firo thinks.

She could be a spy. But why would she be bothering with this place? "Oh, yeah? Who sends you?"