Empty-handed, save for the key to the Astronomer's Tower tucked away in a jacket pocket, Shay left the Ducal estates with a smile tugging at her lips the whole ride back to Seahurst. Her company wasn't nearly as interesting on the way back, so Shay would merely nod and give token responses of "you don't say?" and "I never thought of it like that before". It was a small price to pay for a ride. And she had quite the prize in her pocket to distract her thoughts.<br/><br/>Stepping off the wagon in Seahurst, Shay had a laundry-list of things that needed to be done before the masquerade. She was half-convinced that the Duke may have been the one to invite Miss Titania directly. Unless the mysterious client had wings, it was a safe bet to think that access to the tower itself was strictly limited to the Duke, the Duchess, and the occasional trustworthy maid. She planned on attending the meeting on the roof first before deciding whether or not she would attempt to lift some of the Duke's valuables. ...though she was going to have to prepare to tackle that task. There was also the matter of finding a reliable fence. There was a thieves guild active in the city, but Shay had no idea just how much influence they had in the city's underworld and how much one needed to be in their favor in order to operate. While she didn't have any intention of being subjugated to paying dues and having the number of possible marks restricted due to silly notions such as 'protection money', Shay wasn't going to go out of her way to antagonize the guild either.<br/><br/>There were two things she decided she would do then: attempt to locate the 'seedy' part of a poverty-free city and maybe run into Yewbough in the process to return his money.