There are a hundred people Fate could have picked for a target, and a dozen reasons why she shouldn't have picked the one she did. The two goons with her, the way people stepped out of her path when she came by, any number of reasons that a trained pickpocket might have pointed out to her.

Sadly, Fate went and made the worst possible choice of a target today. Her move is sloppy, unpracticed, and destined for failure. Fate's hand barely makes it to Neo's coin purse before her wrist is seized, thumb and fingers squeezing down on a couple of painful pressure points and twisted painfully.

Slowly, Neo turns her head toward the little girl and tsks at her. Very, very bad move....