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Burglar’s End

by Moxiane

”Oh yes, I saw the whole thing – terrible it was, poor Hutet defending his home against people like that, with only his walking stick. That’s where he landed, over there…”

- Mistress Clove, local snob

”That fat Guilder, fighting against a young man, and winning? That doesn’t seem fishy to you?”

- Yawrik, proprietor, The Loaf and Jug

The streets of Nexus get their names in innumerable ways; some are officially named by the Council of Entities, some have pre-Nexus signposts that still stand, but many are named for some memorable event that took place there – Burglar’s End is one such street. Twenty-two years ago the cul-de-sac now known as Burglar’s End was called Glass River Place, after the large section of imperishable adamant that fills the centre of the plaza and which provides a view of an underground river, but following a dramatic rooftop battle between Dolmer Hutet, a local Guildsman of note, and a houseclimber that resulted in the latter falling four stories to his death, the new name took hold.

The name of the burglar was never discovered, the damage done to his body by the fall rendered it little more than a broken sack of flesh and bones, but Hutet became a local hero as a result of his nocturnal melee. His stature was raised still higher by the sympathy the disappearance of his daughter a month later engendered – and despite repeated reward notices in every place Hutet can reach (from society papers to The Nexus Scuttlebutt) she hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

Rumours

• Once a year, on the anniversary of his death, the ghost of the burglar can be seen falling from the roof of Dolmer Hutet’s house, silently screaming as he falls.
• The burglar was a patsy, set up by Hutet to help him with his business, which was struggling at the time. He was in fact a street youth, drugged and tossed from the youth after a staged battle.

Secret

• The eponymous and anonymous burglar was no such thing, instead he was the young lover of Hutet’s daughter, who had already been promised in marriage to a Yeskanero scion. Her disappearance did a great deal of harm to her father’s financial aspirations, but the resulting sympathy business did much to offset that.