My lovable, light-fingered furball is probably traveling with the caravan, maybe having talked her way in by pretending to be a fortune teller or scout.  She's definitely good at sneaking ahead to check for hidden bandits or other baddies looking to attack their caravan on the road.<br/><br/>As for connections, I'm open to all sorts.  Perhaps she once stole something from one of the other characters, and we can either play that neither character knows it and it'll come up later in the story, or your character knows it was her and is secretly planning their revenge.  She could have met any number of you while she was still traveling with her family, which would be interesting, since they might have a memory of her getting caught pickpocketing and managing to talk her way out of trouble, or they might have been pickpocketed themselves without realizing until it was too late, or they might have just been dazzled by her mother's grace and her father's knife skills.  Maybe she's just an occasional drinking companion with outlandish, though engaging, stories and a mouth like a sailor with Tourette's.  I'm open to anything!