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"This might take some explaining," he starts. "But I guess we have time. So to start with, I was staying at an inn and my room happened to have a window that was right across from the second-floor window of the famous jeweler's next door, and I happened to be sitting in my room looking out at the extremely limited view when the jeweler got the crown in for a polishing, and I happened to see him leave it right where I could see it while he went into the inn to have a drink or something. There were royal guards outside the door of the jeweler's place, but they couldn't see the window I was looking that, so I guess they didn't know it was open. And it was just such a perfect moment - if I moved right then, I could steal a royal crown. So I did. Out my window, in the jeweler's, grab the crown, climb back across - that was one of the tricky parts, I just barely made it. Nobody knew a thing. But then I didn't know if the jeweler had come back from the inn while I was taking the crown, so it wasn't safe to stay where I was because my room would be the obvious first place to look, and it wasn't safe to leave through the downstairs because if he was still there he might spot the crown in my bag - I've moved stuff around in there since then so it's less obvious, but at the time it was pretty blatantly poking those three points at the top into the side of the bag and I didn't have time to fuss with it and make it stop. This is where the Mud Brothers come in - they have names, I just can't remember them - I'd seen them before a few times that day, they were staying down the hall, and they looked shady enough that they might take a deal like 'I'll give you ten suns if you help me climb out your window onto the roof of the next building over'. Well, they took the ten suns, but they wanted to know what I was carrying, and they suggested I hide out in their room until the search moved on and then leave with them later, and I think I told you the rest."