Text | - "Agreed. Now, have Ser Hugo and his soldiers aid your efforts to find the thief."
- "Find him for me, Rona. I want to make him talk. And then pay."
- "Excellent. Have Ser Hugo tear the town apart looking, and your people watch for him."
- "Maester Lucas is too valuable to be used as bait, don't you agree?"
- "We are agreed. If Ser Hugo makes a big production of searching the town publicly, I can have my people watch to see where the rats scurry off to."
- "A trap is not the only way to be clever about this, I think. Rona?"
- "Undoubtedly," she says with a small smile. "We will find this fool of a thief without traps. He was fool enough to not wait until the maester left."
- "A wise decision, my [lord/lady]. He is of such greater value to House [Your House.] As is the goodwill of the Citadel."
- "The Codex is hidden, my [lord/lady], and the maester under guard. It may be harder to find the thief with these precautions, but it is also safer."
- "I wonder - might not the best way to catch a thief be to use a thief's tricks?"
- Bold, mysterious thieves out to steal the Red Codex, an ancient book of House Lannister.
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