Jane followed the ornate carriage closely, ready for whenever her Lord or Lady called for her. She had been a servant to the local noble family for most of her life, and such devotion had won her the family's favor, she had better pay and lodging on the family's grounds than most of the other servants. When the carriage suddenly stopped she almost broke her nose when she ran into it.

“What is the matter driver?” Jane heard the Lord ask.

“It's the horses, sire. They refuse t

It was a quiet
night at the Clearbrook Museum of Archeology. Moonlight shone in
through the panes of the large skylights that capped each wing. A
lone security guard snored at his desk with an empty liquor bottle
laying on its side beneath his limply hanging arm where he dropped it
when he fell into his drunken doze.
Clearbrook was a fairly small town,
the museum staff doubted anyone would go to the trouble of stealing
anything.
But off in a wing distant from the
guard station where a new exhibi