{"id":8011,"date":"2013-06-22T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T09:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/06\/22\/yet-another-phantom-thief-closed-4\/"},"modified":"2013-06-22T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T09:58:26","slug":"yet-another-phantom-thief-closed-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2013\/06\/22\/yet-another-phantom-thief-closed-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Phantom Thief || closed: whiteknighthakuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

kaitouxjeanne<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Unbothered by his closeness, she nonchalantly glanced around the room. It was filled with people who lived in the world of the wealthy. Designer suits and gowns, jewels, a general atmosphere of pompousness \u2014 this was the world she submerged herself in to gain access to a position that could more easily obtain insider information on her targets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeanne looked up at him, noting his practiced touch. She smiled lazily at him and said,<\/p>\n

\u201cThese circles are rather exclusive.. so you can imagine where invitations go for their events. But yes, I do know many of them. Why do you ask?\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather interesting he\u2019s asking about people here.. people of means. Anyone here could get an expensive painting or fifty. So I wonder why he\u2019s investigating this as if it were an \/inside\/ job.. Let\u2019s steer him away from that line of thought.<\/em><\/p>\n

Keeping up with the dance effortlessly, she laughed lightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSurely you don\u2019t think someone here would steal it? It\u2019s far less trouble to buy it from him and these \u2018lovely ladies and gentleman\u2019 have deep bank accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The detective chuckled, steps confident, graceful. As if he’d done this hundreds of times before – which, in truth, he had. “Of course it would be far less trouble… but that’s not really what motivates a thief now, is it?<\/p>\n

"Certainly, if someone wanted to, they could buy a painting and sell it for, hopefully, more than they paid… That would be a broker. You could compare it to, say, a person working a regular nine-to-five to earn their paycheck. Alternatively, they could gamble at high stakes. Some people are risk takers. That is how they operate. It’s not so much the money that they’re after… it’s the thrill.”<\/p>\n

Hakuba smiled, tilting his head at her. “I know a great number of the people present tonight, but not everyone… and not as well as I’d like for any of them. Any one of them could be one of those risk-takers. It could be someone who has the money – all that they’d ever need, and more – and still chooses to steal. There are so many reasons that \u00a0criminal could use to justify their actions… But isn’t that what makes human nature so interesting?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

kaitouxjeanne: Unbothered by his closeness, she nonchalantly glanced around the room. It was filled with people who lived in the world of the wealthy. Designer suits and gowns, jewels, a general atmosphere of pompousness \u2014 this was the world she submerged herself in to gain access to a position that could more easily obtain insider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,2245,75],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ic","tag-kaitouxjeanne","tag-rp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}