Two: Krondor and Three: Plots Summary

Fifteen-year-old Jimmy the Hand is a member of the Mockers, Krondor's association of thieves. In an unauthorized theft, Jimmy discovers a Nighthawk, a member of the Guild of Death, the assassination guild, who is an enemy of the Mockers. He is obligated to tell the Mockers of the presence of an assassin. He fights with the assassin, and traps him into a fall off the roof to his death where accomplices rush his body from the scene. Arutha and Laurie ride into Krondor passing the location of the theft. Jimmy realizes that Arutha is the target of the assassin.

At Mocker's Rest, the guildhall of the thieves, Jimmy attempts to determine when to tell of his theft and the assassin. As he decides to tell the Daymaster, daytime controller of the guild, of the assassins...