A report is given to the guards by an old man, Zeb. It concerns a halfling highwayman who extorted money with menaces from the old man during his constitutional in the Shaharan hills. Little of the report is publishable - suffice to say the old man was not amused, but his poor eyesight did not allow much of a description except,
"A knee high beggar wi a pair o bent knives"
"A knee high beggar wi a pair o bent knives"