Haelan might not be good at much, but he is good at looking pathetic (hey! it's only okay when he says it) and making himself look small. It's a useful, when you're not the best pickpocket Kirkwall has ever seen.

He winces when she suggests she'll call over the guard, and he gestures for her to stop being so damn loud. "Andraste's Knickers, you want me to get my hands cut off?" He asks, and then slowly, carefully, dips his hand into a recess in the folds of his rather dirty clothes. And brings out some coins. Maybe the ones he took from her, maybe not. He doesn't remember how much he collected from her, he was just collecting.

"There, happy?"