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mockers

n. (plural of mocker English)

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They acted in a provocative fashion, openly moving cargo into and out of the city, bribing officials and daring the Mockers to interfere with them.

The Mockers had been driven to ground, and the invaders, working for someone known only as the Crawler, had also suffered, as the Prince of Krondor had acted to restore order to his city.

Squire James, once Jimmy the Hand of the Mockers, had foiled that ruse, before vanishing into the night on a mission for the Prince.

Patience in one his age was rare outside the Mockers, but a rash thief was a dead thief.

Most boys his age were still working the streets in packs, urchins who provided distraction while other Mockers lifted goods from carts, or deflected attention from a fleeing thief.

His voice lacked the rough, commanding edge Limm had come to know as a boy in the Mockers, when Graves was first among the bashers.

The peace within the Mockers was imposed from the top down, and it would never be mistaken for friendship.

While a member of the Guild of Thieves, the Mockers, James had learned every trick of survival that harsh circumstance, opportunity, and keen native intelligence had presented to him.

There were snitches in the employ of the City Watch, but they were often paid by the Mockers to give false information, and anyone who was truly in their pay was likely to turn up floating in the bay.

If he had a writ from the Nightmaster of the Mockers, none in that ragged brotherhood would trouble him, and even those who were not part of the Guild of Thieves left him alone, as the protection of the Mockers was not something to be brushed aside lightly.

While still being on good terms with many individual Mockers, he knew the Guild itself had the death mark on him.

As a means of avoiding conflict with the Prince, the Mockers ignored the mark, and viewed James with polite tolerance, no more.

He still came and went in the sewers and upon the rooftops when need be, but should he be seen as a threat to the Mockers, they would exercise the death mark in an instant.

It appears he has made another bid to dislodge the Mockers, and from what I saw and heard, he may have accomplished that goal.

As to the latter, the only reason to obliterate the Mockers is either to displace them or keep them from observing something.