[While she was silent to contemplate what he had said, he took his time to feel through his pockets for the items he always packed there. He patted down the outside pockets then reached his hands into the inner ones, locating most of the items that he almost always carried. A few were missing, but most were there. Some good news for once.

His hand paused and he looked across the short distance between them at her accusation, sullen though it may be. Such a teenager still. She didn't grow up fast like everyone claimed that she would, not like the others of her age.]

I assumed she would come for it. After all, the only reason she was released from Stillwater was to be the Enforcer's sniffer dog for the undercity. [He pulled out a silver case from his inner coat pocket, opening it to examine the contents. Smoking a cigar was probably the second to last activity he should be doing to his lungs.] She hurt you when she walked away, and I didn't want you to experience that hurt again.

[The gemstone was of more value for them and the Enforcer even if it wasn't useful to Vander's girl. Vi happened to value the Enforcer more than a stone.]