Early Morning Justice and A Chance Meeting!

Three weeks time had flown by rather quickly for the young man who had made his temporary home Vastime, no one seemed to look at him oddly anymore as he walked the streets, or when he put out his own form of justice to those that crossed the line. It was a good feeling to feel like he belonged, even if he didn't share the Vastime's conqueror mentality, he still respected their military advancements, and their gathering of knowledge on the subjects. He had spent so much time in the training fields and in the libraries that one could assume that he lived there, which was fine by him because his thirst to become stronger so as to protect others outweighed any mocking he received. That thirst for strength today had taken him to a small hole in the wall library that was deep within the confines of Vastime, he had only been here a few times, and each time they had some new tome or some new manual for him to read. Today was no different, as upon arrival the librarian smiled warmly, and waved him over to their "just got this" section. They knew him by name and welcomed him warmly as they thought of the pursuit of knowledge much like he did.

After spending a good half an hour rummaging through the newest acquisitions he managed to grab a couple manuals on fencing and ancient North African swordsmanship (which to be honest he was actually quite excited to read about). He went up to the front desk, was greeted warmly, and told to bring the books back in the condition that he had taken them from the library in. They knew he would, but it was procedure, and Steiner thanked them before stuffing the books in his backpack and making his way out of the library into the morning street. As he looked about at the already packed streets, Steiner let out a long sigh as he stretched his hands to the sky, and began to make his way back to his camping site which was a rather far way away, but he viewed this as exercise so he didn't really mind it. As he was walking through the crowd of citizens, making sure as to not bump into anyone, and being a polite as he possibly could, he heard a young lady begin to shout.

Steiner looked around for the source of the noise and noticed across the street a frantic young woman shouting something about a purse while pointing down the path to what looked like a faint image on the horizon. The image was booking it and Steiner decided that since no one was doing anything to stop it, he was going to have to. He ran through the crowd, shoving people out of his way, and earning a few death glares in the process as he emerged on the empty path the lady was pointing down. He began to use his full speed combined, driving himself through the empty streets as fast as a powerless human could run, and to be honest Steiner could run pretty fast for a powerless human. He hopped over urns full of goods being prepped for markets like an Olympic runner, ran along walls much like in a kung fu movie to dodge carts, and spun around random pedestrians as they were making their way to work much like a pro-basketball player cutting through a solid defense. In essence, Steiner was focused on getting the purse back, and he wasn't going to allow the few obstacles in his way to stop him from doing just that.

The thief looked back and Steiner could see the fear in his eyes as he realized that he was being chased down by him, after all thievery in Vastime was pretty big, and would definitely mean some time in prison if he got caught. He desperately would throw stuff to the ground to create more obstacles, knocking over carts, and goods much to the dismay of people trying to set up things for the rest of their day on the town. Steiner leaped over it, much like he had done before, and performed feats of acrobatics to continue to gain distance on the villain who was now beginning to think of what he would do if the young man caught up to him at this point. The thief rounded a corner, probably trying to ditch Steiner by ducking into some shop or something around the corner, and out of his sight. Steiner, however had another gear and tapped into it as he rounded the corner with every bit of ferocity as he had been running at for this whole chase.

And in that recklessness to get the purse back and bring it back to the young woman, Steiner Franz ran head first into a young woman who was walking down the path herself, and fell hard on to his back, hitting his head in the process. Steiner groaned as he lay on the floor, momentarily looking up to see a pretty young woman with white hair, and a hint of red if he looked closely. Steiner looked past her and saw that Vastime authorities had already grabbed the man and were "roughing him up" so to speak. He let out another groan and stood up, cleaning himself off, and looking at the young woman in front of him with concern in his eyes. He examined her for injury, using all of his research on anatomy that Mirja had told him to study to see if there were any vital points that had been injured during their collision. "Are you alright, miss? I didn't mean to run into you like that! I was just pursuing that guy because he stole a young woman's purse...", Steiner said as he pointed at the thief who was now way down the path being dragged by one of the officers, while the other went through a back alley to take the purse back to the young woman.

He looked into her eyes for a moment, thinking of how mad she must be at him for running into her like this while he was trying to recklessly chase some bad guy through the streets. Still, she oddly reminded him of someone that he saw when he was a member of the Vanguard, and he just couldn't place his finger on who she was or if he had truly ever seen her before. "Hey, I know this is a stupid question for some random guy, especially one who ran into you like a few moments ago, but...are you a member of the Vanguard by chance? You look really familiar is all.", Steiner asked, his curiosity getting the better of him, as he looked her over again to make sure she was okay. He decided just in case he would give her some of his healing salve that he had bought off the market a few days back, and reached into his backpacks side pocket procuring it. "Here you go. Just apply this to any place that is injured, alright?", Steiner said with a grin on his face. Hopefully he wasn't about to be yelled at, or hit due to his recklessness earlier.