Even robbers have a principle
During the dinner, we talked a bit more about this situation.
"Certainly, they wouldn't stay still after realizing that the relic was gone, right?"
I turned toward Heraz again, who refused to eat and just stood in the corner closest to my chair. "When did you take this?"
"Four nights ago, Young Master."
Oh, if it was then--I turned toward my companions, whose eyes flashed in tacit understanding. "I guess they won't have time to send another group to pursue us, then."
We did make a lot of precaution during our way, but it was easy to just employ information guild all over the realm to watch for a group like us. The fact that we didn't have any more pursuers was relieving to know.
"In that case, they must already know, right? Unless they rarely checked on the item?"
"They already knew," Heraz continued. "It was impossible to take it quietly because of the warning system, so I made it look like a grand robbery."