Sena checked the wagon before sighing "yes i see the immense amount of harm that poor child would of caused by stealing a single fruit from our supplies... he was likely starving Rin you needed be so cruel!". Rin tried to retort when one of the merchants with dark hair spoke up "Not at all my little lady the urchins around here are a constant annoyance!, if you allow them an inch they'll take a mile! i am always complaining to the guards to increase the security here but alas my words fall on deaf ears every time!" an an older graying merchant looks to the other "if it were up to you Alric half the city would be locked in the dungeons and only nobility allowed to walk the markets".

Sena checked the wagon before sighing "yes i see the immense amount of harm that poor child would of caused by stealing a single fruit from our supplies... he was likely starving Rin you needed be so cruel!"

Rin tried to retort when one of the merchants with dark hair spoke up "Not at all my little lady the urchins around here are a constant annoyance!, if you allow them an inch they'll take a mile! i am always complaining to the guards to increase the security here but alas my words fall on deaf ears every time!"

An older graying merchant looks to the other "if it were up to you Alric half the city would be locked in the dungeons and only nobility allowed to walk the markets".

I was waiting for some others to post, but I guess I'll go ahead and reply again

Reading over @Not Fishing's post again, I think it would kinda make sense if the Emperor had at least a few of his soldiers coming along with our little band. It wouldn't have to be many, but like, maybe a dozen or so. To give the trek a feeling of 'bigness' I suppose. It would also provide our little band with an opportunity to take casualties and losses to make things seem more 'intense' and 'real', without actually killing off any of the player characters.