Follow them to the stocks

You follow the guards and the thief towards the stocks. The square isn't very packed with people, but there's a marginal level of business going on. As the guards drag the unwilling thief towards the stockade, few people pay much attention: you surmise this sort of thing happens pretty often, and is generally beneath the notice of most townsfolk, unless they're particularly in the mood for pelting the criminals with vegetables. Accordingly, there's always a vendor to be found nearby selling produce for either throwing or eating - depending on whether the stocks are occupied. Petty criminals are usually left in the pillory for a few hours at most, before being released. Once upon the plateau, the thief wrenches her arms free, and - giving the guards a foul look - gets into the stocks with as much hostile dignity as she can muster. The guards clasp it shut and then walk off, with one of them wagging their finger at her saying "you better learn your lesson, missy."

Once they leave, you walk over and ascend the platform. You go and stand in front of the thief's face, leaning with one arm against the stockade. She looks up at you, wrinkling her face in annoyance.

"You're standing in my sunlight", she says dismissively. Clearly she's planning on just toughing it out for however long she's in here, and will probably get right back to pickpocketting.

"I can set you free. I just need you to answer some questions for me."

Her interest is piqued. "Alright, what do you want?"

"First, what's your name?"

She hesitates for a second. "Sayza. Sayza Duval. I'm new in town."

"Secondly, more importantly: where's your loot stash?"

"Piss off, I'm not gonna tell you that!"

"Then maybe I'll go down right now and tell the guards you robbed me too. Maybe offer them a little bribe on top. I wonder how long they'll keep you in here then."

Sayza grumbles, and takes a long moment to consider, before finally answering. "I have a bit of loot in my house, on the outskirts of town." She describes you the location and the appearance of the house - it's a ways off, but it should be fairly easy to find. "Now let me outta here!"

"First I'm going to let you in on a little secret.." You lean in close to whisper. "You're in here because of me. I'm the one who pulled your breeches down and tied your hands together. And there's nothing you can or could've done to stop me. Thanks for the directions."

Sayza's eyes go wide. "You son of a bitch! Let me out of here this instant!"

Before you can reply, you hear one of the guards behind you call out at you: "Oi, you! Get off 'a there. Keep yer distance from the criminals!"

You turn around to look at him. You're standing between him and Sayza, blocking his sight to her. You give him an intimidating, unflinching stare. Then you twirl your cloak in the air with an overly dramatic flourish, and spontaneously vanish from sight before the cloak settles down. With his view towards Sayza no longer obstructed, he's stunned to see what you've left behind...

Sayza's still there, but her clothes are not! Her head and arms remain restrained, while her completely naked body portrudes out from the back of the stockade. Sayza feels their disappearance at just about the same moment, letting out an embarrassed, angry squeel, and starts tugging uselessly to get free, wiggling her bare ass and causing her tits to sway back and forth. It's a spectacle that certainly alerts the people nearby.

You meanwhile head towards the outskirts of town, towards the house Sayza described. Following a narrow trail through a small copse of trees, you come upon the small wooden home, slightly isolated from the other houses outside the city walls. Using the momentum of your superspeed, you **** your way through the door, and are greeted with the sight of a crossbow bolt painfully slowly inching towards your chest, which you simply sidestep. Sayza had rigged a crossbow to the door to fire the bolt at intruders - something she'd clearly intended for you when she decided to give you the location of her home. That's cold.

You spot a couple of chests in a corner, which you examine for traps first. You find one, a poisoned needle, but you disarm it. You open the chests. One is filled with money, jewelry and gems, one is filled with clothes: costumes from a nun's habit to a noblewoman, and the third is filled with gold and silver cups, plates, and tableware. Not too bad of a haul for a couple minutes of work.