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There weren't a whole lot of rupees in the bag as far as he could tell. Though, what she said piqued his curiosity. Apparently her own wallet had something aside from money in it. He hadn't had a chance to peek so he had absolutely no clue what it could be. Perhaps some sort of lucky charm? It could be just about anything small enough to fit.

"That won't be necessary," he said calmly as he went ahead and took out the wallet he snatched and set it onto the table. If this one wasn't hers, well then it would mean this belonged to some random person the guy had snatched it from.

"Give it a check."

Now at this, Vol lifted his head to see what was going on above the table. There were a few rupees there, and two wallets with one being emptied out.

This time she didn't just dump the contents, suggesting she wanted to keep whatever was inside somewhat a secret. Now he was really wondering what the heck was in that thing. But whatever it was, it seemed it was the right bag this time. Seeing how her tone was still fairly normal, it didn't seem like she was about to attack him for it too. That was always a good sign in Blade's book.

"I decided to relieve that guy of his wallet as he was trying to take yours. It seems I grabbed the wrong one though," he said nonchalantly with a slight wry grin, "But in the end I guess it worked out anyway."

Keeping the slight grin on his face, Blade shrugged lightly as she complimented him.

"I try," he said, though he had to wonder now if she was some sort of authoritative figure. Either that or possibly a merchant. The average hylian usually couldn't tell a thief until after something was stolen... or if the thief was being completely obvious about how they were. The former option seemed to be more plausible, considering that deadly tone she had taken. Then again, perhaps 'authoritative' figure wasn't the right term for what he was thinking of.

As she took out a small item, he leaned forth to get a better look at it. So it was a small knife she was keeping in there. Judging the size, it looked like it was one used more for throwing. It seemed that the presence of the weapon caught the attention of the Wolfos as well, who soon relaxed when nothing was around.

It was true that he didn't know much about poisons, but he couldn't tell they were coated with anything in the first place.

"Well, it's definitely good to be prepared I guess," he commented. That was half the reason why he carried around his sword and dagger all the time after all.

In his head though, something still didn't quite add up. She acted all nice and innocent now but the way she was when the thief was around just stuck out to him. He had his doubts that she was just a regular traveler who was simply cautious.

Without much hesitation, though not eagerly either, Blade just calmly scooped up the rupees and put them back into the coin purse. Once they were all back to where they originally were, he pocketed it.

"It may have been..." he started while glancing in the general direction of where the commotion had happened, "I'll let you decide if it was me or not."

His vagueness was really more of a safeguard for himself. Sure she let him keep the fail-thief's wallet but that may have to do with the fact that the guy had tried to steal from her. There was no telling if she'd feel the same about some gentleman being the victim of the theft. While a good chase was nice now and then, he wasn't in much of a mood for dealing with guards right now.

Still mildly amused with the situation, Blade continued to have a slight grin on his face as he picked up his sandwich once more. He wasn't the only one too, as his esper found some interest in how things had played out here. Though, Vol didn't really show it and just lazing about on the ground just as he had been doing since they arrived at this table.

"You seem rather wary of thieves. I take it you've had a bad experience with them?" asked the man idly. He didn't think his question was loaded at all. In actuality he was trying to maybe find out another clue or two on who she might be. The uncertainty and suspicions were starting to be a bother to him here.

"A simple curiosity you could say. The average traveler usually doesn't try to pinpoint who is a thief and who isn't unless they've been a victim of sorts," he replied, not beating around the bush or anything like that this time around. Blade figured he may as well just answer fairly straightforward there. He had noticed that hint of caution in her words, so he could only assume that something about what he asked had raised some sort of alarm.

While he was a little curious as to what this 'bad experience' was, he wasn't going to pry. It really wasn't any of his business after all.

Staring back, the thief was trying to gauge what that look she gave him meant exactly. He felt that he may be under some sort of scrutiny, or at least some suspicion. But that was something that came with his trade. When people found out what he was, they had a tendency to be a little more mindful of where their possessions were... even if he had little to no intention of stealing from them.

The question she threw out, however, threw him off. It wasn't really something he heard all too often. Most of the time people didn't really care about that.

"For a decent chunk of my life," he replied, not really bothering trying to figure out when he should draw the line. To some extent, he was a thief for all his life with his tendency to temporarily take things that didn't belong to him as a child. To him it didn't matter a whole lot either.

"Why do you ask?"