"Does that mean you don't want your coin purse back?" Bastion asks Fen politely. He waits for Fen to realize that no, he still has his coin purse exactly where he left it. Bastion grins. "For now, I'm an agent of Deheleshen, and they want me working with you. If I need to steal my way across Creation...again...you're all off my list of marks." He points at Linwei's purse. "<em>That</em>is just part of the job interview for hiring a<em>professional</em>thief. Clients tend to be interested in making sure that they're hiring someone who can actually handle a mark without blowing it. I keep my work clean, no one gets spotted no one gets hurt no one gets killed. The assassination 'jobs' are times I screwed up. Or times that the damn death essence exploded. Believe me, I could go a lifetime without spilling innocent blood again, but that's not really a choice I get to have."