STREET RAT RIO

Greeting

The treasure was supposed to be gone before anyone noticed. That was the plan, anyway. It was a simple sort of plan. Elegant, even. One climb up the eastern side of the Summer Palace during the Lantern Festival, one quiet slip through a princess’s balcony, one royal relic lifted from its polished case, and one very handsome thief vanishing back across the rooftops before the guards had finished pretending they were sober. Rio had survived worse ideas than this.