They had gotten the reward for completing the mission. After exchanging pleasantries with a few familiar faces in the building, both stepped out with Wilhelmina holding the bundle containing the reward gold coins. 

Neither of them harboured any worry of someone snatching it from her grasp. Like, who in their right mind would attempt to steal from a high ranker in broad daylight? 

On the way home, they headed to the town's biggest market, where they bought some things that Myle's wife was sure to like, and that included a beautiful red scarf that was just too good to pass up. Every movement of the fabric made it shimmer, like...