Tarin Quincey Email:merciful_rose@yahoo.co.uk Lives: between the North and South Ends of Jail. Occupation: Thief. Comments: A tall, slender young girl of sixteen dressed in a long denim coat of mid-blue colour, heavy-looking and patterned on each side with brightly-coloured designs of flowers and such; under this she wears a thin lace garment of pale cream hue, hanging in loose folds about her upper body. It is slightly too long in the sleeves and body, reaching to roughly a quarter of the way down her thighs. She also wears a pair of mid-blue denim jeans, a loose fit and slightly too long. On her feet are a pair of brown boots, and buckled loosely around her waist a patterned leather belt of light-brown colour, with a sword case attached to the side. The hilt of a sword can be seen poking out from within; it is a silver basket-hilt, heavily tarnished, bearing three small red stones. The blade, were it visible, is obviously well-used; like the hilt, it is heavily tarnished, its edges worn away in places, and with small cuts along its length. The girl's face is rather sharp-featured, with a small sharp nose and pale cheeks. Her hair is rather thin, a pale golden-brown hue, and comes just past her shoulders. A pair of large sea-green eyes complete the picture; they are more often than not partly obscured by a few unruly strands of hair. Somewhat uncharacteristic for a thief, Tarin tends to be noisy and gets excited easily. She is very friendly and is always happy to sing, dance or act in front of an audience; she enjoys being the centre of attention. Tarin lives between the South and North Ends of Jail, an odd mixture of a place where the relative wealth of the North is jumbled up against the poverty of the South. Some of the people around her live behind high walls, in barricaded houses, while others cluster together in shacks. Those who live in the barricaded houses are sorely aware that they are not rich enough to live in the 'real' North End, so they tend to be snotty and short-tempered with their neighbours. The streets are knobbly, dirty, dangerous and unpaved. Tarin's home is neither barricaded nor totally impovrished. It forms part of a hollow square of homes built around a central courtyard. There are three other families in the building. Each house takes up one side of the square. The courtyard is kept clean, and only one of the other families is involved directly in thieving. They are the Fish. The Fish live opposite her. To her right live the Holes, and to her left live the Table-weeds, led by one of the singers who often come over from Cumber Poidy to try their luck in the opera houses of Jail.