"Scraps of paper are his favourite thing that isn't food. I think that he thinks I'll somehow stop my work or studies if he can eat enough of them." Who knows what sort of logic a fox is capable of, she wouldn't entirely put it past him as she gives him a nudge.

(And it's come in handy, having a furry friend that can steal a document off a merchant's table when they're preoccupied elsewhere if needed.)

"Gracias, jump from roof to roof and you have to be, no? It's a painful lesson to learn, one you learn only the once."